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Xyris marginata, commonly known as the alpine yellow eye, is a species of monocot flowering plant in the family Xyridaceae. It is endemic to Tasmania and King Island in Australia, where it commonly grows in button grass moorlands at altitudes of up to 1,070 m (3,510 ft) above sea level. The species was first collected by German-Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1875, and was formally described by Alfred Barton Rendle in 1899.
Xyris marginata is primarily found in wet heaths and button grass moorlands across King Island, as well as the north-west, west, east, and south-west coasts of Tasmania.
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 marginata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
