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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Xyris fimbriata   FAMILY Xyridaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris fimbriata   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Xyris fimbriata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-001:

Xyris fimbriata   FAMILY Xyridaceae

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

Xyris fimbriata

 

COMMON NAME:
 Giant Yellow-eyed-grass, Fringed Yellow-eyed-grass

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

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_xyfi_001_lvd

        

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

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_xyfi_003_lvd

        

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

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmx_fimbriata

Month Unknown        

Flowers open 1:00-3:00pm EDT, the petal blades yellow, per Weakley's Flora.

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Xyris fimbriata   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris fimbriata   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Xyris fimbriata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-001:
 Xyris fimbriata   FAMILY Xyridaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2401

Forb
Perennial

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, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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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

 

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