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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.
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Common Name:
Giant Yellow-eyed-grass
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
Look for it in dry to moist flatwoods, moist savannas, scrub oak sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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