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Eleusine indica (manienie ali'I; Indian goose grass; goosegrass; Indian goosegrass; goose grass; crowsfoot grass; silver crabgrass; wiregrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eleusine indica, the Indian goosegrass, yard-grass, goosegrass, wiregrass, or crowfootgrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is a small annual grass distributed throughout the warmer areas of the world to about 50 degrees latitude. It is an invasive species in some areas. Eleusine indica is closely related to Eleusine coracana (finger millet or African finger millet), and the diploid E. indica is likely an ancestor of the allotetraploid E. coracana.(For other uses of "goosegrass", see Goosegrass.)\n
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Infraspecies

Eleusine indica var. distachya
Eleusine indica var. indica

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Monoecious
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [2]  Grass
Usage [1]  The stems are used to make mats, baskets etc; The plant is suitable for paper manufacture;
Height [1]  18 inches (0.45 m)
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Predators

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Bubalus mindorensis, Carlo C. Custodio, Myrissa V. Lepiten, and Lawrence R. Heaney, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 520, pp. 1-5 (1996)
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6A twelve-month field study of the West African Thrush Turdus pelios (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae). Part 2: annual cycles, Akinsola I. Akinpelu, Rev. biol. trop vol.53 no.1-2 San José June 2005
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0