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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris chapmanii
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Xyris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
This taxon is abundantly distinct from X. scabrifolia by its essentially glabrous leaves and lack of outer scale leaves and bulbous bases, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris chapmanii
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)
Xyris scabrifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris scabrifolia
COMMON NAME:
Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_xyris_chapmanii1
August Harnett County NC
Scape usually > 50cm long, spike vertical, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_xyris_chapmanii2
August Harnett County NC
Scape shorter than that of X. scabrifolia, and not glaucescent, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris chapmanii
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris chapmanii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Xyris scabrifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris scabrifolia
2540
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: sandhill seepage bogs in areas of copious lateral seepage in deep muck soils, beaver pond margins, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (crowded and appearing basal)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
3 sepals
3 petals
3 stamens, 3 fimbriate staminodia
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a compact, terminal, capitate spike
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
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