GOOSEGRASS
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Eleusine indica (L. ) Gaertn.
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| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-30 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September |
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| Culms: | | Prostrate to ascending or erect, slightly flattened, glabrous. | | Blades: | | Flat or folded, 2-8 inches long, less than 1/4 inch wide, mostly glabrous but sometimes with long hairs on upper surface near ligule; tips blunt or rounded. | | Sheaths: | | Loose, keeled, overlapping below, flattened, sparsely hairy or glabrous. | | Ligules: | | Membranous, irregularly cut or torn. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles; branches 2-10, spike-like, 1.5 to 4 inches long, crowded at tip of culm, palmately whorled, sometimes 1 or 2 borne below main whorl. | | Spikelets: | | Numerous, crowded, 2-7-flowered; awns absent; florets sessile, closely overlapping in 2 rows along 1 side of rachis. | | Habitat: | | Waste areas, lawns, and fields, common in compacted soils that border trails and roads. | | Distribution: | | Principally east 3/4 of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Tufted. This naturalized grass is a common weed in tropical and subtropical areas. |
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| Goosegrass |  | | 182 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass inflorescence |  | | 146 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass spikelets |  | | 124 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass |  | | 228 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass habit |  | | 232 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass habit |  | | 230 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass spikelets |  | | 87 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass spikelets |  | | 104 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Goosegrass habit |  | | 237 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
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