Eleusine indica

Goose grass, india goose grass, India Goose Grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Goose grass is a naturalized annual found in the Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, southern California coastal areas, and southern California inland regions in disturbed areas at elevations generally below 350 meters. Flowering from July to December, this plant produces pale green to whitish flowers in compact, finger-like clusters. Growing with prostrate to erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it spreads extensively across open ground. Its leaves have prominent white midribs and are relatively narrow, measuring 5 to 40 centimeters long and 3 to 8 millimeters wide. The plant forms multiple branching spikes that create a distinctive, multi-fingered grass formation across disturbed landscapes.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Jul-Dec

Elevation: generally < 350 m

Bioregions: GV, SnFrB, SCo, SnGb

California counties: Alameda, Los Angeles, San Diego, Yolo, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Kern, Santa Barbara, Tehama, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Butte, Ventura, Santa Clara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.