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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 Weakley's Flora.

drawing of Xyris fimbriata, Giant Yellow-eyed-grass, Fringed Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Giant Yellow-eyed-grass, Fringed Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: In mucky or sandy soils of upland depression ponds, also along sandhill streams, impoundments and in deep muck of sandhills seepage slopes often just below the zone occupied by Xyris chapmanii

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

drawing of Xyris caroliniana, Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Carolina yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Carolina yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Dry to moist pine pine flatwoods, moist pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

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

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Common Name: Small's Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) 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

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]

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

drawing of Xyris torta, Twisted Yellow-eyed-grass, Mountain Yellow-eyed-grass, Slender Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Twisted Yellow-eyed-grass, Mountain Yellow-eyed-grass, Slender Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Mountain bogs, seeps, marshes, streambanks, ditches

Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris ambigua, Bog Yellow-eyed-grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Bog Yellow-eyed-grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Wet pine savannas and flatwoods, pinelands, edges of depression ponds

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris stricta, Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris stricta FAMILY: Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris stricta FAMILY: Xyridaceae

Habitat: Depression ponds, depression meadows, borrow pits, ultisol pine savannas, and ditches

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris brevifolia, Shortleaf Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Shortleaf Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Wet sands of pinelands, especially seasonally wet, open, white sands of spodosol longleaf pine flatwoods (Leon series soils), margins of Carolina bay sandrims

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris baldwiniana, Baldwin's Yellow-eyed-grass, Grassleaf Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Baldwin's Yellow-eyed-grass, Grassleaf Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, seepage bogs, sandhill seeps, wet savanna ecotones

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris elliottii, Elliott's Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Elliott's Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris elliottii FAMILY: Xyridaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris elliottii FAMILY: Xyridaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris elliottii 035-01-009 FAMILY: Xyridaceae

Habitat: Margins of drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays, limesinks and flatwoods swales, wet savannas

Uncommon in Coastal Plain

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Common Name: Bulbous Yellow-eyed-grass, Tall Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) 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

Habitat: Sandhill seeps, pine savannas, ditches, rarely inland in acid seepage over rock

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont) (disjunct in w. SC in the uppermost Piedmont in the Blue Ridge Escarpment region)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris chapmanii, Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass

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

Common Name: Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris chapmanii FAMILY: Xyridaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae

Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs in areas of copious lateral seepage in deep muck soils, beaver pond margins

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris scabrifolia, Roughleaf Yellow-eyed-grass, Scabrous-leaved Xyris, Harper's Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Roughleaf Yellow-eyed-grass, Scabrous-leaved Xyris, Harper's Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae

Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs and wet pine savannas

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris curtissii, Curtiss's yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Curtiss's yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Longleaf pine savannas, inland in acid bogs and seeps

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris serotina, Acid Swamp Yellow-eyed-grass, Gray-leaved Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Acid Swamp Yellow-eyed-grass, Gray-leaved Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Depression meadows, ultisol savannas (Lynchburg/Rains complex or Eulonia/Oketee), ditches

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris difformis, Flatstem Yellow-eyed-grass, Bog Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Flatstem Yellow-eyed-grass, Bog Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Pine savannas, roadside ditches, pond margins, acid seeps, bogs, other wet habitats

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

need drawing of Xyris floridana, Florida Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Florida Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris floridana FAMILY: Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris floridana FAMILY: Xyridaceae

Habitat: Pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, ditches

Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

drawing of Xyris jupicai, Richard's Yellow-eyed-grass

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Common Name: Richard's Yellow-eyed-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

Habitat: Acid wetlands, ditches, various wet habitats

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia (at least some populations are)

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