Common Name: goose grass, silver crabgrass, crowfoot, yardgrass, wiregrassScientific Name: Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced annual, reproducing by seed Culmsprostrate to sometimes ascending, white center point Leavesblades smooth, hairy margins, folded in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous, minutely toothed; sheaths open, flattened, usually hair margins, usually white based Seedheadsspike few to several, usually whorled on stem top, spikelets tightly clustered, thick, two-rowed, flattened