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Xyris caroliniana
CAROLINA YELLOWEYED GRASS
Florida native
A common plant of flatwoods, sandhills and scrub throughout almost all of Florida. The range includes the southeastern and mid-Atlantic coastal states from Texas to New Jersey, plus Puerto Rico.
The nearly two dozen species of Xyris that occur in Florida can be challenging to identify, requiring botanical skill and the use of a technical key. X. caroliniana is the only species in Florida with white petals, making identification easy.
The three-petaled white flowers appear on a conelike head at the end of a smooth twisted scape to 71 mm (28 in) tall. Of the three sepals, two are keel-shaped and one is membranous. Three fertile stamens alternate with three brush-like staminoides.
Carolina yellow-eyed grass has narrow (up to 4mm wide) leaves that are shorter than the scape , usually 20-60 cm (-24 in.) long.
Xyris caroliniana is a member of the Xyridaceae - Yellow-eyed Grass family.
Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities
Walter Kingsley Taylor
Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat.This book is the first of its kind for Florida. Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites - and of the wildflower species associated with each.
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Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified:
Mar 11, 2008