-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

-Bermuda Grasses (Genus Cynodon)

-Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus)

It prefers moist or wet soils and is often found growing in muddy or shallow waters. 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.