1974

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia (at least some populations are)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Look for it in ditches, various wet habitats, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

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

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops p76
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p393
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p303

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

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 (1968) 035-01-015:
Xyris jupicai   FAMILY Xyridaceae

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Xyris communis

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Xyris elata