Chicken claw grain is not quinoa. Chicken claw grain is a common name, some places also call it chicken claw corn, or dragon claw corn, dragon claw millet, goose claw barnyard, duck claw barnyard, duck distance corn, etc., and its scientific name is panicum, is the grass family panicum. The leaves of quinoa are similar to those of chicken claw millet, which is a plant of the genus Quinoa in the family Quinoa. The two are not the same family, just similar leaves.