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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.
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Description
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Herbs, perennial, cespitose, 5--30 cm. Stems compact. Leaves 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. Inflorescences: 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. Flowers: 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. Seeds translucent, narrowly ellipsoid, (0.6--)0.7--0.9(--1) mm, finely lined.
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Distribution
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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.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering summer--fall.
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Habitat
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Sphagnous bogs, poor fens, acid seeps, shores of glacial lakes, streams, muskegs, or floating bog mats; 0--500m.
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Synonym
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Xyris flexuosa Muhlenberg. var. pusilla A. Gray, Manual ed. 5, 548. 1867; X. papillosa Fassett
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Comprehensive Description
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Xyris montana Ries, Bull. Torrey Club 19: 38. 1892
Xyris flexuosa var. pusilla A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 548. 1867.
Sparsely tufted; rhizome elongate, ascending; leaves linear, 4-10 (-15) cm. long, 1.5-2 mm. broad, somewhat obtuse, smooth ; sheath occupying one third to one half the length of the leaf, pale-tawny, opaque, somewhat dilated at base; peduncles 15-30 (-40) cm. tall, 0.8-1 mm. broad, somewhat compressed and bicostate above, smooth, the peduncular sheath nearly equaling the leaves; spike rather few-flowered, ellipsoid or obovoid, 5-8 (-10) mm. long, 3-4.5 mm. thick, the outer barren bracts broadly ovate, about 3 mm. long, nearly rounded at the apex, the flowering bracts broadly obovate, 4.5-5.5 mm. long, about 4 mm. broad, entire or nearly so, chestnut-colored, somewhat shining, with a lanceolate often rather indistinct dorsal area 1-1.5 mm. long; lateral sepals lanceolate-linear, about 4.5 mm. long, 0.5-0.7 mm broad, acute at the apex; keel very narrow, sparsely lacerate-dentate above or nearly entire; seeds fusiform, 0.6-0.7 mm. long.
type LOCALITY: Pocono Mountain. Pennsylvania.
Distribution: Newfoundland to Michigan, Pennslvania, and New Jersey.
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- Albert Charles Smith, Harold Norman Moldenke, Edward Johnston Alexander. 1937. XYRIDALES. North American flora. vol 19(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Xyris montana
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Xyris montana, the northern yelloweyed grass,[3] is a North American species of flowering plants in the yellow-eyed-grass family. It grows in eastern and central Canada (from Ontario to Newfoundland) and in the northeastern and north-central United States (from Minnesota to New England and New Jersey).[4][5]
Xyris montana is a perennial herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall with long, narrow leaves up to 15 cm (6 inches) long but less than 3 mm (0.12 inches) wide.[5][6][7]
References
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^ "Xyris montana". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.
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^ "Xyris montana". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
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^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Xyris montana". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
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^ "Xyris montana". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
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^ a b Kral, Robert (2000). "Xyris montana". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 22. New York and Oxford – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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^ Ries, Heinrich 1892. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 19(2): 38
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^ Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
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Xyris montana: Brief Summary
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Xyris montana, the northern yelloweyed grass, is a North American species of flowering plants in the yellow-eyed-grass family. It grows in eastern and central Canada (from Ontario to Newfoundland) and in the northeastern and north-central United States (from Minnesota to New England and New Jersey).
Xyris montana is a perennial herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall with long, narrow leaves up to 15 cm (6 inches) long but less than 3 mm (0.12 inches) wide.
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