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Slender Yellow Eye

Xyris gracilis

Slender Yellow Eye
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Slender yellow-eye is a small tufted perennial herb from eastern Australia, grown for its grass-like leaves and bright yellow flowers in wet or swampy ground. It needs consistently moist soil and full sun to part shade.

Family
Xyridaceae (Xyrid family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist or boggy; it suits wet ground and pond or bog margins.
Soil
Moist, acidic, low-nutrient soil such as peaty or sandy wet soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; hardy in mild climates, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Xyris gracilis, commonly known as slender yellow-eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Xyridaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tufted herb with linear leaves with 5 to 8 flowering stems with bright yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Slender yellow-eye grows in moist or swampy areas, often in heath, and is widespread on the coast and ranges of New South Wales and southern Victoria.

Other Xyris plants

Coastal plain yelloweyed grass · Xyris andina · Xyris asperula · Baldwin's yelloweyed grass · Xyris bracteata · Shortleaf yelloweyed grass · Carolina yelloweyed grass · Hawai'i yelloweyed grass · Correll's yelloweyed grass · Bog yelloweyed grass · Drummond's yelloweyed grass · Elliott's yelloweyed grass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Xyris gracilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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