Xyris elliottii explained

Xyris elliottii, common name Elliott's yelloweyed grass, is a North American species of flowering plant in the yellow-eyed-grass family. It is native to the coastal plain of the United States from Mississippi to South Carolina plus southern Mexico (Tabasco), Central America (Belize, Nicaragua) and the West Indies (Cuba, Puerto Rico).^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Xyris elliottii is a perennial herb up to 25 cm (10 inches) tall with grass-like, olive-green leaves up to 40 cm (4 inches) long, and yellow flowers.^{[5] [6] [7]}

External links

• Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in British Honduras (Belize) in 1970

Notes and References

1. http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Xyris%20drummondii.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34300095?tab=specimens Tropicos, Xyris elliottii Chapm.
3. Kral, R. 2001. Xyridaceae. En: Stevens, W.D., C. Ulloa, A. Pool & O.M. Montiel (eds.). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(3): 2544–2549
4. Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 85: i–ix, 1–246
5. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=222000466 Flora of North America, Xyris drummondii Malme 1933.
6. Malme, Gustaf Oskar Andersson 1933. Arkiv för Botanik utgivet av K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien 25A(12): 14–15
7. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24356418#page/544/mode/1up Chapman, Alvan Wentworth 1860. Flora of the southern United States 500