Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies  of Zihuatanejo

ORDER POALES

Goose Grass

Eleusine indica

• Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

• Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

• Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

• Monocots (Class Liliopsida)

• Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies (Order Poales)

Goosegrass, in the family Poaceae, is a weedy summer annual grass that has a flattened, white/silver base, leading to the common name silver crabgrass. It thrives in disturbed areas with compacted soils in full sun such as grasslands, marshes, stream banks, farmland, and road sides.