-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Monocots (Class Liliopsida)​

-Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies (Order Poales)

-​Grasses Family Poaceae

-Subfamily Chloridoideae

-Tribe Cynodonteae

-Subtribe Eleusininae

-Genus Eleusine

-Goose Grass (Eleusine indica)

Goosegrass, in the family Poaceae, is a weedy summer annual grass that has a flattened, white/silver base, leading to the common name silver crabgrass. It thrives in disturbed areas with compacted soils in full sun such as grasslands, marshes, stream banks, farmland, and road sides.