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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris stricta
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
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Learn more about Xyris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris stricta
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris stricta
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)
Xyris stricta var. stricta
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris stricta
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris stricta
COMMON NAME:
Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmxstricta_scotts
Month Unknown Williamsburg County SC
Petal blades triangular-cuneate, 3-5mm long, opening at mid-day, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris stricta
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris stricta
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris stricta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Xyris stricta var. stricta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris stricta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris stricta
2399
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Depression ponds, depression meadows, borrow pits, ultisol pine savannas, and ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare in NC
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (crowded and appearing basal)
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]
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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