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|accepted_name=Xyris montana
|accepted_authority=Ries
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
|place=19: 38. 1892
|year=1892
}}
|common_names=Xyris de montagne
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Xyris flexuosa var. pusilla
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Manual ed.
|publication_place=5, 548. 1867
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris papillosa
|authority=Fassett
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris montana
|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 montana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, 5–30 cm. <b>Stems</b> compact. <b>Leaves</b> in narrow fans, 4–15 cm; sheaths reddish, soft, papillate; blade deep green, narrowly linear, 0.8–2(–3) mm wide, smooth, margins smooth to papillate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths exceeded by leaves; scapes linear, wiry, terete, (0.25–)0.5–0.8(–1) mm wide, distally with 2–4 ribs, ribs papillate; spikes broadly to narrowly ellipsoid or ovoid, 4–8 mm; fertile bracts 3–4(–4.5) mm, margins erose or minutely fimbriolate, sometimes with narrow reddish border, apex very slightly to slightly keeled. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals slightly exserted, straight, 4.2–4.7 mm, keel scarious, entire or apically lacerate, apex red, narrow, firm; petals unfolding in morning, blade obovate, 3–4 mm; staminodes bearded. <b>Seeds</b> translucent, narrowly ellipsoid, (0.6–)0.7–0.9(–1) mm, finely lined.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sphagnous bogs, poor fens, acid seeps, shores of glacial lakes, streams, muskegs, or floating bog mats
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;VtT.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Most or all known populations of this species fall within the boundaries of Wisconsin glaciation. The long stems (a trait not known for other North American species) are a response to the burial of the clump bases in deep sphagnum.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Xyris montana
|authority=Ries
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Xyris papillosa
|basionyms=Xyris flexuosa var. pusilla
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sphagnous bogs, poor fens, acid seeps, shores of glacial lakes, streams, muskegs, or floating bog mats
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;VtT.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
|publication year=1892
|special status=
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|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris montana
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