Common name: Goose Grass, Crabgrass
Eleusine tristachya (Lam.) Lam. APNI* 
Description: Coarse, tufted, to 0.4 m high; culms oblique or ascending, striate, compressed, smooth.
Leaves with sheath keeled, flattened, smooth, striate; ligule ciliolate, c. 0.5 mm long; blade flat or folded, 2–4 mm wide, glabrous, minutely scabrous on margins.
Spikelets sessile, crowded, rigid, narrow-ovoid, 3–7 mm long. Glumes unequal, lower 2–3 mm long, ovate, acute to blunt; upper 3–4 mm long, ovate to elliptic, blunt. Lemmas acute, glabrous, 3–5-nerved, 3–4.5 mm long.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of disturbed ground and extensive mown areas. Native of S Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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