Xyris smalliana Nash. Small's Yellow-eyed-grass. Phen: Jul-Aug. Hab: Pond margins, ditches; often growing in standing water in the intermediate zones of basin marshes adjacent to Hypericum fasciculatum and Pontederia cordata [in peninsular FL]. Dist: S. ME south to s. FL, west to s. MS; disjunct to se. TX; s. Mexico south into Central America; West Indies (Cuba).

ID notes: This species typically has conspicuous pinkish-red leaf bases.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy: = AqW, C, ETx1, FNA22, GW1, K1, K3, K4, Meso6, NE, NY, RAB, S, S13, W, WH3, Bridges & Orzell (2003), Kral (1966a); > Xyris congdonii Small – F, Tat; > Xyris smalliana Nash – F; > Xyris smalliana Nash var. olneyi (Wood) Gleason – G; > Xyris smalliana Nash var. smalliana – G

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Wetland Indicator Status:

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
• Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
• Northcentral & Northeast: OBL

Heliophily ?: 8