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Xyris tennesseensis is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Xyridaceae known by the common name Tennessee yellow-eyed grass. It is native to a small section of the Southeastern United States , including parts of the states of Alabama , Georgia , and Tennessee .
The leaves are 8 to 13 centimetres (3–5 in) long and 5 to 8 centimetres (2–3 in) wide, and are thick, firm, dark green, shining above, and paler green below when full grown. In autumn they turn bright yellow. The leaf axils contain formidable spines which when mature are about 2.5 centimetres (1 in) long.
Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and brown. [1]
In Middle Tennessee, leaves are projected to begin changing color by mid-October and will last throughout early November. Although the window for viewing the state's dazzling fall foliage isn't ...
In the fall the leaves turn a bright yellow color. [3] [12] The leaf has a very short petiole 1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in (1–1 cm) long. The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins which open in later spring. [7] Both male and female flowers will occur on the same tree making the plant monoecious. The male catkins are 2–4 in (5–10 cm) long, yellow ...
The leaves are green in summer and turn yellow in autumn in shades ranging from cream and tan to golden yellow. [8] Honey locusts leaf out relatively late in spring, but generally slightly earlier than the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). [9] The strongly scented flowers appear in late spring. [10]
Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky yellowwood or American yellowwood (syn. C. lutea, C. tinctoria), is a species of Cladrastis native to the Southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama.
It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base. The large, showy, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches.