NameThatPlant.net: Xyris stricta

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris stricta FAMILY Xyridaceae Go to FSUS key

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 stricta FAMILY Xyridaceae

COMMON NAME:
Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris stricta FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris stricta FAMILY Xyridaceae

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

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

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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