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§1 Plant

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

vernacular Indian goosegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
ELIN3
GBIF
2705953
Rank
species
Indian goosegrass (Eleusine indica)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Eleusine
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 939 counties across 28 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 939 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 939 counties across 28 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 13 I
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 50 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 53 I
Georgia view state ↗ 27 I
Illinois view state ↗ 88 I
Indiana view state ↗ 60 I
Iowa view state ↗ 13 I
Kansas view state ↗ 66 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 62 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 64 I
Maine view state ↗ 1 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 I
Michigan view state ↗ 10 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 29 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 I
New York view state ↗ 34 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 82 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 44 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 38 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 39 I
Vermont view state ↗ 2 I
Virginia view state ↗ 98 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 30 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ELIN3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2705953 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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