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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 17 taxa in the family Xyridaceae, Yellow-eyed Grass family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Giant Yellow-eyed-grass, Fringed Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris fimbriata FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris fimbriata FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris fimbriata 035-01-001 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: In mucky or sandy soils of upland depression ponds, also along sandhill streams, impoundments and in deep muck of sandhills seepage slopes often just below the zone occupied by Xyris chapmanii
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Carolina yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris caroliniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris caroliniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris caroliniana 035-01-002 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Dry to moist pine pine flatwoods, moist pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Small's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris smalliana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris smalliana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris smalliana 035-01-003 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Pond margins, ditches; often growing in standing water in the intermediate zones of basin marshes adjacent to Hypericum fasciculatum and Pontederia cordata [in peninsular FL]
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Twisted Yellow-eyed-grass, Mountain Yellow-eyed-grass, Slender Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris torta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris torta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris torta 035-01-004 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Mountain bogs, seeps, marshes, streambanks, ditches
Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog Yellow-eyed-grass, Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris ambigua FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris ambigua FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris ambigua 035-01-005 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas and flatwoods, pinelands, edges of depression ponds
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass, Strict Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris stricta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris stricta FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Depression ponds, depression meadows, borrow pits, ultisol pine savannas, and ditches
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare in NC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shortleaf Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris brevifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris brevifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris brevifolia 035-01-006 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Wet sands of pinelands, especially seasonally wet, open, white sands of spodosol longleaf pine flatwoods (Leon series soils), margins of Carolina bay sandrims
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Baldwin's Yellow-eyed-grass, Grassleaf Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris baldwiniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris baldwiniana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris baldwiniana 035-01-008 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas, seepage bogs, sandhill seeps, wet savanna ecotones
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Elliott's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris elliottii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris elliottii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris elliottii 035-01-009 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Margins of drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays, limesinks and flatwoods swales, wet savannas
Uncommon in Coastal Plain
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common Name: Bulbous Yellow-eyed-grass, Tall Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris platylepis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris platylepis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris platylepis 035-01-011 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Sandhill seeps, pine savannas, ditches, rarely inland in acid seepage over rock
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont) (disjunct in w. SC in the uppermost Piedmont in the Blue Ridge Escarpment region)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris chapmanii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs in areas of copious lateral seepage in deep muck soils, beaver pond margins
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Roughleaf Yellow-eyed-grass, Scabrous-leaved Xyris, Harper's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Xyris scabrifolia FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs and wet pine savannas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Curtiss's yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris curtissii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris difformis var. curtissii FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris curtissii 035-01-012 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine savannas, inland in acid bogs and seeps
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Acid Swamp Yellow-eyed-grass, Gray-leaved Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris serotina FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris serotina FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris serotina 035-01-013 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Depression meadows, ultisol savannas (Lynchburg/Rains complex or Eulonia/Oketee), ditches
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flatstem Yellow-eyed-grass, Bog Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris difformis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris difformis var. difformis FAMILY: Xyridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris difformis 035-01-014 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, roadside ditches, pond margins, acid seeps, bogs, other wet habitats
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris floridana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris floridana FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, ditches
Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Richard's Yellow-eyed-grass
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xyris jupicai FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xyris jupicai FAMILY: Xyridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xyris jupicai 035-01-015 FAMILY: Xyridaceae
Habitat: Acid wetlands, ditches, various wet habitats
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia (at least some populations are)
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