-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Monocots (Class Liliopsida)​

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

-​Grasses Family Poaceae

-Bristlegrasses, Bluestems, Paspalums, and Allies (Subfamily Panicoideae)

-Bristlegrasses, Rosette Grasses, Barnyard Grasses, and Allies (Tribe Paniceae)

-Tribe Cynodonteae

-Subtribe Eleusininae

-Windmill Grasses (Genus Chloris)

It is commonly found in wet fields, irrigated cropfields, riverbanks, roadsides and ditches. Flowers are found in the form of a terminal spikelet. They are golden brown or straw coloured and grow from the central stem. The floral spikelets grow perpendicular to the flowerstalk with spikes narrow, linear and flat.