Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Xyris chapmanii
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Xyris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Xyris chapmanii
COMMON NAME:
Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_xyris_chapmanii1
August Harnett County NC
Scape usually > 50cm long, spike vertical, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_xyris_chapmanii2
August Harnett County NC
Scape shorter than that of X. scabrifolia, and not glaucescent, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Xyris chapmanii
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Xyris chapmanii
2540
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Look for it in sandhill seepage bogs in areas of copious lateral seepage in deep muck soils, 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.
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:
Capsule
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