Goosegrass (sometimes goose grass) is a common name for several
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...
es,
sedges
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' wit ...
, and annual herbs. The origin of the name is due either to a plant's use as food for
geese
A goose ( : geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera '' Anser'' (the grey geese and white geese) and ''Branta'' (the black geese). Some other birds, mostly related to the she ...
or plant parts that look like the foot of a goose.
Goosegrass may refer to:
* ''
Acrachne'', genus of grass
* ''
Carex eleusinoides'', goosegrass sedge
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Carex lenticularis'', goosegrass sedge
* ''
Eleusine
''Eleusine'' is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family,[Eleusine indica
''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 lat ...]
'', Indian goosegrass, also called wiregrass
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Galium aparine
''Galium aparine'', with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed and sticky willy among others, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.
Names
''Galium aparine'' is known by a variety of common names in English. They ...
'', also referred to as "cleavers"
* ''
Galium murale'', small goosegrass
* ''
Puccinellia fasciculata'', saltmarsh goosegrass
File:Carex lenticularis NRCS-2.jpg, ''Carex lenticularis''
File:Eleusine indica Habitus BotGardBln0906.JPG, ''Eleusine indica''
File:Galium.aparine.jpg, ''Galium aparine'' close-up
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