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Xyridaceae > Xyris (yellow-eyed grass)

Morning Yellow-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris ambigua) Morning Yellow-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris ambigua)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Common in the NC coastal plain in wet pine savannas and flatwoods.

Morning Yellow-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris ambigua) Morning Yellow-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris ambigua)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Morning Yellow-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris ambigua) Morning Yellow-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris ambigua)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012


Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Common in the NC coastal plain in pine savannas and flatwoods, growing on slightly drier microsites than X. ambigua.

Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012


Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
27 Aug 2006

A widespread genus, Xyrisis easy to recognize at the generic level but difficult to identify to species!

Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
27 Aug 2006
Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
27 Aug 2006

Note two, long, linear, basal leaves (right-hand side of photo).

Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana) Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass, Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris caroliniana)
Carteret Co., NC
27 Aug 2006

Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis) Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Common in the NC coastal plain in various wet habitats from pine savannas to ditches. Uncommon to rare in the western half of NC, this species grows from Canada to Florida.

Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis) Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012
Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis) Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012
Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis) Bog Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris difformis)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Savanna Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris flabelliformis) Savanna Yelloweyed Grass (Xyris flabelliformis)
Carteret Co., NC
26 Aug 2012

Uncommon and local in North Carolina, the tiny Xyris flabelliformis grows in seasonally wet sandy substrates in pinelands. The individual here is in fruit.



Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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