The Morton Arboretum
The Field Museum
Chicago Botanic Garden
Additional Partners
Log In
New Account
Sitemap
Home
Search Collections
Map Search
Browse Images
Inventories
Aquatic Invasive Plant Guide
Naturalized flora of The Morton Arboretum
vPlants Checklist
Chicago Region Checklists and Inventories
Interactive Tools
vPlants Dynamic Key
Dynamic Checklist
Dynamic Key
Xyris flabelliformis
Chapm.
Family:
Xyridaceae
Savannah Yellow-Eyed-Grass
FNA
Resources
Robert Kral in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Herbs, annual, cespitose, rarely solitary, 7--30 cm. Stems short. Leaves in fans, (1--)2--3(--10) cm; sheath base without chestnut brown patch; blade strongly maroon-tinged, lance-linear, 1--3(--4) mm wide, margins papillate or finely tuberculate-scabrous. Inflorescences: scape sheaths much exceeding leaves; scapes filiform, nearly terete, 0.5 mm wide, many ribbed; spikes mostly ovoid, mostly longer than broad, 4--8(--10) mm, apex acute; fertile bracts 3--5 mm, margins entire or erose, apex keeled. Flowers: lateral sepals included, strongly curved, 2--3 mm, keel concolorous, firm, ciliate; petals unfolding in morning, blade obovate, 2.5--3 mm; staminodes bearded. Seeds translucent, broadly ellipsoid to round, 0.3 mm, finely lined longitudinally. 2n = 18.
Flowering spring--early summer (all year south). Acid, sandy, peaty flatwoods, clearings, disturbed moist sands, coastal plain; 0--200 m; Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C.
Open Interactive Map
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
Click to Display
100 Initial Images
- - - - -
View All Images