Eleusine indica
Common Name(s):
- Phonetic Spelling
- el-YOO-sy-nee IN-dih-kuh
- Description
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Goosegrass, in the family Poaceae, is a summer annual grass that has a flattened, whitish base, leading to the common name silver crabgrass. Seedlings are generally prostrate inhabit, but plants will produce upright shoots and flowering stems that can grow over the top of small plants. Stems do not root at the nodes. Goosegrass begins to germinate a few weeks after crabgrass. It thrives in disturbed areas with compacted soils in full sun. Although somewhat more difficult to control than crabgrass, most preemergence herbicides and selective postemergence grass herbicides labeled for use will manage goosegrass
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Eleusine
- Species:
- indica
- Family:
- Poaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Annual
- Country Or Region Of Origin:
- Africa, Asia
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Weed
- Growth Rate:
- Rapid
- Maintenance:
- High
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Fruit:
- Fruit Type:
- Caryopsis
- Fruit Description:
- Once the flower spikelets die, small grains of fertile lemmas are released.
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Flowers:
- Flower Bloom Time:
- Fall
- Summer
- Flower Description:
- Flower spikes are produced in a whorl and consist of 2 dense rows of sessile spikelets along one side of its central stalk.
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Leaves:
- Leaf Type:
- Sheath
- Simple
- Leaf Arrangement:
- Alternate
- Leaf Shape:
- Linear
- Leaf Margin:
- Entire
- Hairs Present:
- Yes
- Leaf Length:
- > 6 inches
- Leaf Width:
- < 1 inch
- Leaf Description:
- The medium to dark green leaf blades are up to 10" long and 8 mm. across. They are mostly glabrous, keeled, and hull-shaped at their tips. The margins are sparsely ciliate with long crooked hairs.
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Stem:
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
- Stem Description:
- The culms are green, glabrous, and somewhat flattened and sheathed.
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Landscape:
- Problems:
- Weedy