Xyridaceae
Yellow-Eyed Grass Family
The Xyridaceae family (Yellow-Eyed Grass Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Poales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a herb.
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Narrow, grass-like, two-ranked leaves arising from a basal tuft in wet, marshy ground; small, three-petalled yellow flowers open one at a time from a tight, cone-like cluster of overlapping brown bracts at the stalk tip.
Each flower head opens only one or two blooms at a time from the tightly packed bract cluster, so a single stalk can keep flowering in sequence over many weeks.
To check whether a plant belongs to Xyridaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
Learn the full family-identification methodFamilies that can look similar
Poaceae
Compare against Poaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare PoaceaeCyperaceae
Compare against Cyperaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare CyperaceaeEriocaulaceae
Compare against Eriocaulaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare EriocaulaceaeBromeliaceae
Compare against Bromeliaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare BromeliaceaeAll 1 species in XYRIDACEAE
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