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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris stricta   FAMILY Xyridaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris stricta   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Xyris stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)

Xyris stricta var. stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Xyris stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Xyris stricta

 

COMMON NAME:
Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass


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image of Xyris stricta, Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmxstricta_scotts

Month Unknown    Williamsburg County    SC

Petal blades triangular-cuneate, 3-5mm long, opening at mid-day, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris stricta   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris stricta   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Xyris stricta var. stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris stricta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris stricta

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2399

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Depression ponds, depression meadows, borrow pits, ultisol pine savannas, and ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare in NC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (crowded and appearing basal)

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

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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