Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Xyris fimbriata
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Xyris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris fimbriata
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 035-01-001:
Xyris fimbriata
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
COMMON NAME:
Giant Yellow-eyed-grass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_xyfi_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_xyfi_003_lvd
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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 (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) 035-01-001:
Xyris fimbriata
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
2401
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
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, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...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 Wildflowers of SC p319
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p013
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p284