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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris platylepis
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.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris platylepis
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris platylepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)
Xyris platylepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris platylepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-011:
Xyris platylepis FAMILY Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris platylepis
COMMON NAME:
Bulbous Yellow-eyed-grass, Tall Yellow-eyed-grass
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris platylepis
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris platylepis
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris platylepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Xyris platylepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris platylepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-011:
Xyris platylepis
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris platylepis
4439
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: sandhill seeps, pine savannas, ditches, rarely inland in acid seepage over rock, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont) (disjunct in w. SC in the uppermost Piedmont in the Blue Ridge Escarpment region)
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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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p374
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p193
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