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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 17 taxa in the family Xyridaceae, Yellow-eyed Grass family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Giant Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris fimbriata FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris fimbriata FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris fimbriata 035-01-001 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in mucky or sandy soils of upland depression ponds, also along sandhill streams, impoundments & in deep muck of sandhills seepage slopes often just below the zone occupied by Xyris chapmanii
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland yellow-eyed-grass, Carolina yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris caroliniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris caroliniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris caroliniana 035-01-002 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in dry to moist flatwoods, moist savannas, scrub oak sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Small's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Xyris smalliana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris smalliana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris smalliana 035-01-003 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in pond margins, ditches
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Yellow-eyed-grass, Mountain Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris torta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris torta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris torta 035-01-004 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in mountain bogs, marshes, ditches
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog Yellow-eyed-grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris ambigua FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris ambigua FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris ambigua 035-01-005 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in wet savannas and flatwoods, pinelands, edges of depression ponds
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Xyris stricta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris stricta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in depression ponds, depression meadows, borrow pits, ultisol savannas and ditches
Uncommon in GA & SC, rare in NC (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shortleaf yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris brevifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris brevifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris brevifolia 035-01-006 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in wet sands of pinelands, esp seasonally wet, open, white sands of spodosol longleaf pine flatwoods (Leon series soils), margins of Carolina bay sandrims
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Baldwin's Yellow-eyed-grass, Grassleaf yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris baldwiniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris baldwiniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris baldwiniana 035-01-008 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in wet savannas, seepage bogs, sandhill seeps, wet savanna ecotones
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Elliott's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris elliottii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris elliottii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris elliottii 035-01-009 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it on margins of drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays, limesinks and flatwoods swales, wet savannas
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common Name: Bulbous Yellow-eyed-grass, Tall Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Xyris platylepis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris platylepis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris platylepis 035-01-011 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in sandhill seeps, savannas, ditches, rarely inland in acid seepage over rock
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Xyris chapmanii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in sandhill seepage bogs in areas of copious lateral seepage in deep muck soils
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Roughleaf Yellow-eyed-grass, Scabrous-leaved Xyris, Harper's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in sandhill seepage bogs and wet pine savannas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Curtiss's yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris curtissii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris difformis var. curtissii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris curtissii 035-01-012 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in savannas
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Acid Swamp Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris serotina FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris serotina FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris serotina 035-01-013 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in depression meadows, ultisol savannas (Lynchburg/Rains complex of Eulonia/Oketee), ditches
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flatstem Yellow-eyed-grass, Bog Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris difformis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris difformis var. difformis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris difformis 035-01-014 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in savannas, roadside ditches, pond margins, other wet habitats
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Xyris floridana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris difformis var. floridana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in savannas, wet pine flatwoods, ditches
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Richard's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Xyris jupicai FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris jupicai FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris jupicai 035-01-015 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Look for it in ditches, various wet habitats
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia (at least some populations are)
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