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Tawa-tawa
Tawa-tawa is usually abundant 30
throughout the Philippines in
waste places and open
grasslands. The plant is an
annual hairy herb, usually
much-branched from the base.
These branches are simple or
forked, ascending or spreading
up to 40 centimeters long and
often reddish or purplish.
Goosegrass
Goosegrass forms a pale green 4
matlike clump with flattened
stems that grows in a low
rosette. Stems are somewhat
fleshy at the base. The mature
plant can spread to about 2-1/2
feet (80 cm) wide. The leaf
blades are nearly hairless,
except for long hairs on the
blade bases, collars, and/or
upper sheath margins.