Yellow Star Grass

(Hypoxis hirsuta)

 

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Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

 

Yellow Star Grass (Hypoxis hirsuta)

Identification: Flowers yellow, starlike with 6 pointed petals. Leaves elongate, grasslike, arising from the base of the plant and separate from the flowering stalks. Leaves hairy, hairs long, almost stringlike. Plant arising from a small bulb. Plant 3 to 8 inches in height.

Distribution: Southern Canada and southward throughout most of the eastern United States. Westward in the Great Plains states and also in Colorado and New Mexico.

Habitat: Yellow Star Grass is found in meadows and open woods.

Flowering period: May to August.

 

Yellow Star Grass (Hypoxis hirsuta)

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The six petaled, yellow starlike flowers and the hairy stems are distinctive features of Yellow Star Grass.

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