Common Name: goosegrass, silver crabgrass, crowfoot, yardgrass, wiregrass
Scientific Name: Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass Family

Identification Notes:

life cycle - annual, reproducing by seed

culms - prostrate to sometimes ascending, white center point growth habit 1, growth habit 2

leaves - blades smooth, hairy margins, folded in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous, minutely toothed; sheaths open, flattened, usually hair margins, usually white based leaves

seedheads - spike few to several, usually whorled on stem top, spikelets tightly clustered, thick, two-rowed, flattened

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