Xyris floridana(Kral) E.L.Bridges & Orzell

Florida Yellow-Eyed-Grass

WFO wfo-0000610880 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Xyris floridana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. a Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-11-06 / obs. 55805908
Xyris floridana, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. b Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162699789
Xyris floridana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. c Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163640431
Xyris floridana, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. d Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104226863
Xyris floridana, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. e Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93633483
Xyris floridana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. f Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50548089
Xyris floridana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. g Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49733857
Xyris floridana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. h Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48816192

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Xyris floridana is native: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaBelizeHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Xyris floridana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Xyris difformis var. floridana Kral

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol XYFL. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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