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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
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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. chapmanii, through its presence of outer scale leaves and bulbous bases and by having strongly papillose-scabrid leaves, 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 scabrifolia
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Xyris scabrifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris scabrifolia
COMMON NAME:
Roughleaf Yellow-eyed-grass, Scabrous-leaved Xyris, Harper's Yellow-eyed-grass
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_xyris_scabrifolia1
July Moore County NC
Flowers grow from a conelike head at top of stem, opening midday or later, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_xyris_scabrifolia2
July Moore County NC
Stems mostly 10-32", mostly twisted, densely minutely bumpy, glaucescent, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xyris scabrifolia
FAMILY
Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xyris scabrifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Xyris scabrifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Xyris scabrifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Xyris scabrifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xyris scabrifolia
2539
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: sandhill seepage bogs and wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (crowded and appearing basal)
FLOWER:
Summer
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!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p431
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p194
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