Colorful flower genus

• Chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Xyris \Xy"ris\, n. [L., a kind of Iris, Gr. ?, fr. ? a razor.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any member of the plant genus ''Xyris''.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Xyris , the yelloweyed grasses , is a genus of flowering plants in the Yellow-eyed-grass family . The genus counts over two hundred fifty species, widespread over much of the world, with the center of distribution in the Guianas . The leaves are mostly ...