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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris smalliana   FAMILY Xyridaceae

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

Xyris smalliana

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

Xyris smalliana

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

Xyris smalliana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-003:

Xyris smalliana   FAMILY Xyridaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Xyris congdonii

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Xyris smalliana

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

Xyris smalliana

 

COMMON NAME:
Small's Yellow-eyed-grass


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image of Xyris smalliana, Small's Yellow-eyed-grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_xyco6_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris smalliana   FAMILY Xyridaceae

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

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-003:
Xyris smalliana   FAMILY Xyridaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Xyris congdonii

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Xyris smalliana

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4486

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Pond margins, ditches; often growing in standing water in the intermediate zones of basin marshes adjacent to Hypericum fasciculatum and Pontederia cordata [in peninsular FL], per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (crowded and appearing basal)

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
3 sepals
3 petals
3 stamens, 3 fimbriate staminodia
Superior ovary

Inflorescence a compact, terminal, capitate spike

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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