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|accepted_name=Xyris caroliniana
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora Caroliniana, secundum.
|place=69. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris arenicola
|authority=Small
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|name=Xyris torta
|authority=unknown
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris conocephala
|authority=Wright
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|name=Xyris flexuosa
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Elliott
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|name=Xyris flexuosa var. pallescens
|authority=(Mohr) Barnhart
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|name=Xyris pallescens
|authority=Kunth
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|name=Xyris torta var. pallescens
|authority=C. Mohr
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|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris caroliniana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Xyridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Xyris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Xyris caroliniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, usually cespitose, 30–80(–100) cm, base deeply set. <b>Stems</b> compact. <b>Leaves</b> erect or ascending, 20–50 cm; sheath base chestnut brown; blade green, narrowly linear, twisted, 2–5 mm wide, compressed but fleshy, margins minutely tuberculate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths much exceeded by leaves; scapes linear, wiry, flexuous, nearly terete, 1.2–1.5 mm wide, distally 1-ribbed, rib smooth or somewhat scabrous; spikes ellipsoid to lanceoloid or cylindric, 10–30 mm, apex acute; fertile bracts 5–10(–13) mm, margins entire or erose, apex rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals conspicuously exserted, tan to reddish brown, nearly straight, 13–15 mm (including long hairs), keel firm, apex long-fimbriate, fimbriae red; petals unfolding in afternoon, blade obovate, 8–10 mm; staminodes bearded. <b>Seeds</b> translucent, cylindro-fusiform, 0.8–1 mm, with flat, longitudinal ribs. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist sands of pine savannas, bog edges, upper shores, flatwoods, sandy coastal dune swales, coastal plain
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies (Cuba).
|discussion=<p>In Florida and the lower Gulf Coastal Plain west to Mississippi are paler-leaved, white-petaled examples that have been treated as <i>Xyris</i> flexuosa <i></i>var.<i> pallescens</i> (C. Mohr) Barnhart. These indeed are always in uniform populations but differ in no other significant way from the species. Since from typical plants. Because some other <i>Xyris</i> have white-flowered morphs (particularly <i>X. platylepis</i>), these are regarded as too close to be distinguished as varieties. Populational studies are in order, however.</p>
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name=Xyris caroliniana
|author=
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Xyris conocephala;Xyris flexuosa;Xyris flexuosa var. pallescens;Xyris pallescens;Xyris torta var. pallescens
|basionyms=Xyris arenicola;Xyris torta
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist sands of pine savannas, bog edges, upper shores, flatwoods, sandy coastal dune swales, coastal plain
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies (Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora Caroliniana, secundum.
|publication year=1788
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_453.xml
|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris caroliniana
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