Poaceae
Goosegrass
Acrachne racemosa
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Acrachne
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Acrachne racemosaPoaceae
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 尖稃草, 微药假龙爪茅
- English
- Goosegrass
Synonyms
- Acrachne borii J.Swamy & Rasingam
- Acrachne eleusinoides Wight & Arn. ex Steud.
- Acrachne racemosa var. sumanensis Aggarwal & C.S.Purohit
- Acrachne verticillata (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. ex Lindl.
- Acrachne verticillata (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Chiov.
- Dactyloctenium verticillatum (Roxb.) Munro
- Eleusine racemosa B.Heyne ex Roth
- Eleusine verticillata Roxb.
- Leptochloa racemosa (B.Heyne ex Roth) Kunth
- Leptochloa schimperiana Hochst.
- Leptochloa verticillata (Roxb.) Kunth
- Sclerodactylon micrandrum Keng f. & L.Liu
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.