| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xyridaceae | Xyridaceae | Yellow-eyed Grass Family | |||
| Xyridaceae | Xyris | Yellow-eyed-grass |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Xyridaceae | Xyris ambigua | Coastal Plain Yellow-eyed-grass | Wet pine savannas and flatwoods, pinelands, edges of depression ponds. | Se. Virginia south to s. Florida, west to Alabama and ec. Texas, primarily on the Coastal Plain; West Indies (Cuba); Mexico south into Central America. | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris baldwiniana | Grassleaf Yellow-eyed-grass, Baldwin's Yellow-eyed-grass | Wet pine savannas, seepage bogs, sandhill seeps, wet savanna ecotones. | Se. North Carolina south to n. peninsular Florida, west to s. Arkansas and ec. Texas, primarily on the Coastal Plain; West Indies; s. Mexico and Central America. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris bracteicaulis | Bracted Yellow-eyed Grass | Coastal Plain pond-shore. | Apparently endemic to Long Island, New York (where extirpated). |  (c) staff, NYBG Herbarium |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris brevifolia | Shortleaf Yellow-eyed-grass | Wet sands of pinelands, especially seasonally wet, open, white sands of spodosol longleaf pine flatwoods (Leon series soils), margins of Carolina bay sandrims. | Se. North Carolina south to s. Florida, west to s. Alabama and w. Florida; West Indies; e. South America. Specimens from further west identifed as this species (at least B.S. Early 1943) are instead X. drummondii (E. Bridges, pers. comm.; 2026). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris calcicola | Limestone Yellow-eyed-grass | Wet calcareous savannas and flatwoods. | C. and s. peninsular Florida; disjunct in ne. Florida (Baker County; Wunderlin & Hansen 2011). |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris caroliniana | Pineland Yellow-eyed-grass | Dry to moist pine pine flatwoods, moist pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, scrubby flatwoods, FL dry prairies. | Se. Virginia south to s. Florida, west to se. Texas; disjunct in s. New Jersey; West Indies (Cuba). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris chapmanii | Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grass | Sandhill seepage bogs in areas of copious lateral seepage in deep muck soils, beaver pond margins. | With a disjunct distribution in the Southeastern Coastal Plain: s. New Jersey (Moyer & Bridges 2015); sc. North Carolina south to c. South Carolina (in the fall-line Sandhills) (Sorrie, Van Eerden, & Russo 1997); wc. Georgia; Panhandle Florida west through s. Alabama to s. Mississippi; e. Texas. |  (c) Bridges, Edwin |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris correlliorum | Corrells’ Yellow-eyed-grass | Lake margins and on floating mats; sometimes growing submerged in shallow water along lake margins. | Endemic in c. Florida peninsula (Highlands County). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris curtissii | Curtiss's Yellow-eyed-grass | Longleaf pine savannas, inland in acid bogs and seeps. | Se. Virginia south to ne. Florida, Florida Panhandle, and west to s. Arkansas and ec. Texas, primarily on the Coastal Plain; disjunct in w. South Carolina in the uppermost Piedmont (Blue Ridge Escarpment region); disjunct in s. New Jersey; Central America (Belize). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris difformis | Bog Yellow-eyed-grass | Pine savannas, roadside ditches, pond margins, acid seeps, bogs, other wet habitats. | New England and s. Canada south to n. peninsular Florida and ec. Texas. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris drummondii | Drummond's Yellow-eyed-grass | Wet pine flatwoods, ditches. | Se. Georgia south to ne. Florida, west to Panhandle Florida and s. Mississippi. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris elliottii | Elliott's Yellow-eyed-grass | Margins of drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays, limesinks and flatwoods swales, wet savannas. | E. South Carolina south to s. Florida, west to s. Alabama; Nicaragua, Belize, Mexico (Tabasco); West Indies; South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris fimbriata | Fringed Yellow-eyed-grass | In mucky or sandy soils of upland depression ponds, also along sandhill streams, impoundments and in deep muck of sandhills seepage slopes often just below the zone occupied by Xyris chapmanii. | S. New Jersey south to sc. peninsular Florida, west to se Texas. Disjunct in c. Tennessee. Populations on the periphery (mid-Atlantic) and west of the Mississippi are also similarly isolated from the core range between s. Virginia and e. Louisiana (including southward to c. Florida). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris flabelliformis | Fanleaf Yellow-eyed-grass | Wet sands of pinelands, especially seasonally wet, open, white sands of spodosol longleaf pine flatwoods (Leon series soils), margins of Carolina bay sandrims. | Se. North Carolina south to s. Florida, west to se. Louisiana, on the Coastal Plain; Cuba. |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris floridana | Florida Yellow-eyed-grass | Pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, ditches. | Se. North Carolina south to s. Florida, west to se. Louisiana; Central America. |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris iridifolia | Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grass | Marshes, upland pond margins, blackwater river channels, floodplain pools, other wet habitats. | Se. Virginia south to ne. Florida and Florida Panhandle, west to e. Texas; disjunct in c. Tennessee and Mexico. |  (c) Witsell, Theo - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris isoetifolia | Quillwort-leaved Yellow-eyed-grass | Seepage bogs, pine savannas, depression pond margins (with seepage), and (less typically) coastal scrubby flatwoods; often in the intermittently exposed, outer drawdown zones of depression pond margins in open saturated sands. | Endemic to Florida Panhandle and s. Alabama. |  (c) staff, NCU Herbarium |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris jupicai | Richard’s Yellow-eyed-grass | Acid wetlands, ditches, various wet habitats. | New Jersey south to s. Florida, west to Tennessee, Arkansas, se. Oklahoma (Singhurst, Bridges, & Holmes 2007), and Texas; Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris longisepala | Panhandle Yellow-eyed-grass, Long-sepaled Yellow-eyed-grass | Depression pond margins. | Endemic to Florida Panhandle and s. Alabama. |  © Floyd A. Griffith |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris louisianica | Louisiana Yellow-eyed-grass | Pine savannas, bogs, ditches and disturbed areas. | Florida Panhandle west to se. Texas. |  (c) Smith, Jake - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris montana | Northern Yellow-eyed-grass | Bogs (especially in floating bog mats), poor fens, acidic seepage areas. | Newfoundland and Labrador west to Ontario, south to CY, New York (Long Island), ne. Pennsylvania, s. Michigan, s. Wisconsin, n. Minnesota. |  (c) Imbeau, Louis - CC-BY |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris panacea | St. Marks Yellow-eyed-grass | Mucky depression ponds. | Endemic to Florida Panhandle (Wakulla County) |  (c) Budach, Brett - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris platylepis | Bulbous Yellow-eyed-grass | Sandhill seeps, pine savannas, ditches, rarely inland in acid seepage over rock. | Se. Virginia south to s. Florida, west to se. Louisiana; disjunct in sw. Louisiana and se. Texas; disjunct in w. South Carolina in the uppermost Piedmont in the Blue Ridge Escarpment region. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris scabrifolia | Roughleaf Yellow-eyed-grass | Sandhill seepage bogs and wet pine savannas. | Sc. and se. North Carolina south to Panhandle Florida, west to s. Alabama and s. Mississippi; disjunct in sw. Louisiana-se. Texas. |  © Scott Ward |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris serotina | Gray-leaved Yellow-eyed-grass | Depression meadows, ultisol savannas (Lynchburg/Rains complex or Eulonia/Oketee), ditches. | Se. North Carolina south to c. peninsular Florida, west to s. Mississippi, in the Coastal Plain. |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris smalliana | Small's Yellow-eyed-grass | 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]. | S. Maine south to s. Florida, west to s. Mississippi; disjunct to se. Texas; s. Mexico south into Central America; West Indies (Cuba). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris spathifolia | Ketona Yellow-eyed-grass | Seeps over dolomite. | Apparently endemic to Bibb County, c. Alabama. | |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris stenotera | Margins of drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays, limesinks. | Endemic to Florida peninsula. |  (c) Ward, Scott G | |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris stricta | Strict Yellow-eyed-grass | Depression ponds, depression meadows, borrow pits, ultisol pine savannas, and ditches. | South Carolina south to ne. Florida and Panhandle Florida, west to s. Mississippi and se. Louisiana. Reported for our area by Kral (1966b). P. McMillan (pers. comm.) reports this species from a number of locations in the outer Coastal Plain of North Carolina and South Carolina. |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris tennesseensis | Tennessee Yellow-eyed-grass | Seepy, fenlike areas over limestone. | Tennessee, Alabama, and nw. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988) |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Xyridaceae | Xyris torta | Twisted Yellow-eyed-grass, Mountain Yellow-eyed-grass, Slender Yellow-eyed-grass | Mountain bogs, seeps, marshes, streambanks, ditches. | New Hampshire west to Wisconsin, e. Minnesota, and n. Nebraska, south to e. Virginia, e. North Carolina, w. South Carolina, c. Georgia, Louisiana, c. Oklahoma, and e. Texas. This is one of the few species of Xyris in our area that is not strongly associated with the Coastal Plain. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |