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Xyris
Also called Yellow Eyed Grass, Yellow Eyed Grasses
Xyris is a genus of more than 250 small grass-like plants with small yellow flowers on rounded or cylindrical heads, most diverse in the Guianas. Most species grow in wet, sunny, nutrient-poor ground such as bogs, wet savannas and pine flatwoods.
Xyris is a genus of flowering plants, the yelloweyed grasses, in the yellow-eyed-grass family. The genus counts over 250 species, widespread over much of the world, with the center of distribution in the Guianas.
The leaves are mostly distichous, linear, flat, and thin or round with a conspicuous sheath at the base. They are arranged in a basal aggregation. The small, yellow flowers are borne on a spherical or cylindrical spike or head (inflorescence). Each flower grows from the axil of a leathery bract. The fruit is a nonfleshy, dehiscent capsule. In Xyris complanata, a single flower bud on the spike appears in the morning, and expands into a conspicuous flower during the afternoon hours.
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