Wire Grass (Eleusine indica)

Family: Poaceae or Gramineae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Main Bloom Time: Early summer, Late summer, Mid summer. Form: Spreading or horizontal.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds, Leaves, Roots/Tubers

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Late Summer, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Seed - cooked. The seed is rather small, it is sometimes used as a famine food. Used as a millet, it can be cooked whole or ground into a flour and used in making cakes, gruels etc. — The seed is rather small, it is sometimes used as a famine food.; Used as a millet, it can be cooked whole or ground into a flour and used in making cakes, gruels etc.; Young seedlings - raw or cooked and used as a side dish with rice.

Habitat & North American Range

Roadsides and waste places. (Zone 8)