Savannah Yellow Eyed Grass

Xyris flabelliformis Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 499. 1860
Annual; leaves linear, often curvate, 1-2 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. broad, obtuse, smooth; sheath occupying about one half the length of the leaf, somewhat dilated at the base; peduncles 7-15 cm. tall, 0.3-0.5 mm. broad, terete or nearly so, smooth, the peduncular sheath 1.5-2.5 cm. long, often violaceous at the base; spike few-flowered, ellipsoid or ovoid, 3-5 mm. long, 2-3.5 mm. thick, the outer barren bracts ovate or ovate-elliptic, about 2 mm. long, obtuse, the flowering bracts elliptic, about 3 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, obtusely carinate above, strawcolored or tawny, with a grayish-green or purple-colored lanceolate dorsal area; lateral sepals lanceolate, falcate, about 2.5 mm. long, acute at the apex; keel very narrow, ciliate-scabrid from near the base to the apex; seeds ellipsoid, about 0.4 mm. long.
Type LOCALITY: bow pine barrens, near the coast, western Florida. Distribution: Florida to Mississippi.