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



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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image of Xyris chapmanii, Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_xyris_chapmanii1

August    Harnett County    NC

Scape usually > 50cm long, spike vertical, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Xyris chapmanii, Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass

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

 

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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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