Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Xyris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

This taxon is abundantly distinct from X. scabrifolia by its essentially glabrous leaves and lack of outer scale leaves and bulbous bases, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Xyris chapmanii

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)

Xyris scabrifolia

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Xyris scabrifolia

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).

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 (Sorrie, 2011).

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia   FAMILY Xyridaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris chapmanii

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Xyris scabrifolia

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris scabrifolia