Low Amarantha, Carelessweed

Amaranthus polygonoides

Family: Amaranthaceae

Plant Description: Annual to 65 cm high with ovate to obovate or oval leaves 0.6-2 cm long, alternate. Flowers in axillary clusters, Male and female flowers tiny, on the same plant, crowded in small cluses in the leaf axils…

Plant Trivia:

Field Identification: Smaller of the Amaranths, has gray markings on the leaves, but not unique to this genus.

Occurrence: Common to woodland fields and waste places

Bloom Period: April-December

Plant Use:

Key to species of the 21 Amaranths‘ may be found in Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend by Roy L. Lehman, Ruth O’Brien & Tammy White