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|accepted_name=Xyris fimbriata
|accepted_authority=Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|place=1: 52. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris fimbriata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Xyridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Xyris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Xyris fimbriata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, usually cespitose, 60–150 cm, base shallowly set. <b>Stems</b> compact. <b>Leaves</b> in fans, 40–70 cm; base dull, straw-colored, green, or pinkish; blade lustrous green, broadly linear, flat or slightly twisted, 5–25 mm, smooth, margins papillate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths much exceeded by leaves; scapes linear, 1–1.5 mm wide, distally scabrous, 2-ribbed, ribs harsh; spikes ovoid to ellipsoid, 12–25 mm, apex blunt; fertile bracts 5–8 mm, margins nearly entire, apex rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals conspicuously exserted, yellow-brown, nearly straight, (5.5–)6–8(–9) mm, keel firm, long-fimbriate with pale hairs; petals unfolding in late morning, blade obovate, 5–8 mm; staminodes bearded. <b>Seeds</b> translucent, cylindro-fusiform, 0.8–1 mm, with broad, flat, pale longitudinal ribs. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (all year south).
|habitat=Peats and mucks of pond shallows, sluggish shallow streams, bogs, seeps, low pine savanna
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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name=Xyris fimbriata
|authority=Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (all year south).
|habitat=Peats and mucks of pond shallows, sluggish shallow streams, bogs, seeps, low pine savanna
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1816
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris fimbriata
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