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Amaranth
A brilliant plant that blooms into late summer and is perfect for edging. Colors range from orange to red to green. Showy tendrils cascade down from tall stems. Dried amaranth is often seen in flower arrangements.

Amaranths
Amaranths are Victorian flowers that deserve consideration for your garden. Grain, vegetable and flowering types are native to the Americas and were much-prized by the Aztecs.

Amaranthus tricolor and cvs. (Chinese spinach, Tampala, Joseph's coat)
Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Benner
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Amaranth
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(m´rnth´´) [Gr.,=unfading], common name for the Amaranthaceae (also commonly known as the pigweed family), a family of herbs, trees, and vines of warm regions, especially in the Americas and Africa.

Amaranthus gangeticus
( Kahlalu Amaranth )
The leaves of this variety can be used as salad greens. Originally from Jamaica. Plants are 4 to 6 feet tall with a red seed head. Rare.

The genus name, Amaranthus, comes from the Greek word amarantos, meaning unfading, referring to its long lasting flowers. Its epithat, caudatus, means with a tail, referring to its long inflorescence.

Amaranthus caudatus
- Love lies bleeding, Tassel flower, Velvet flower
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Amaranths
Botanical: Amaranthus hypochondriacus (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Amaranthaceae ...

Amaranth are an easy to grow annual flower. If you are looking for dried flowers, you've come to the right plant. Amaranth flowers keep their color after they are dried. They make perfect dried flower arrangements.

Globe Amaranth
Scientific Name: Gomphrena globosa L.
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Family: Amaranthaceae ...

This young amaranth flower stalk in late spring will mature to produce tens of thousands of (edible) seeds in the fall.

Scientific Name
Amaranthus ‘Magic Fountain'
Common Name
Magic Fountain amaranthus ...

There are more than a dozen amaranth species in Florida; only three of them are native. This species, a native, is frequent in the brackish and freshwater marshes nearly throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 1998).

Amaranthus tricolor
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Sow 1/4" deep and 2" apart in spring after last frost, when soil has warmed to 70F/21C, rows 8" apart; thin to every 6".

Amaranthus hypochondriacus, 'Manna De Montana' amaranth
annual, easy care
created by Seeds of Change
zones: 1a thru 11a ...

Amaranthus caudatus
Love lies bleeding
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Amaranthus
Amaranthus are esteemed for their foliage as well as their striking inflorescences.

Globe amaranth
Golden Mimosa. Acacia baleyana.
Graminae. Burr grass or Crab Grass.

Amaranthus tricolor 'Elephant Head'
Amaranths are both historic and contemporary plants. Few similarly small groups of plants are as complex and diverse, both genetically and taxonomically.

Amaranth redroot, 'scarlet temple'. This groundhugging and evergreen groundcover is usually grown for its brilliant foliage.

Amaranthus retroflexus
(pigweed family)
TOXICITY RATING: High. The plant is quite common and very toxic.

Amaranth, basil, beetroot, chicory, coriander, chard, corn salad, dandelion, endive, komatsuma, land cress, leaf celery, lettuce, mizuna, mustard, pak choi, parsley, purslane, radicchio, red kale, rocket, sorrel and spinach.

Amaranthaceae, Saltwort, Russian Thistle, Chenopodiaceae, Salsola, Genus Batis
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Euphorbia marginata 'Summer Icicle'
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Globe amaranth is easy to grow. The plant will grow 18 inches tall. It will do well during dry weather. Cut the flowers when partly open for drying and hang upside down in a shady place for two to three weeks.

Globe Amaranth
Gomphrena
Heliotropium arborescens
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Amaranthaceae, Amaranth view all from this family
Description
Tiny, yellow-green flowers on a stout, much-branched, sometimes reddish stem.

Family: Amaranthaceae.
Iresine herbstii Hoo Common name(s): Beefsteak plant, Chicken gizzard, blood leaf ...

Familie Amaranthaceae
Die Familie (900 meist krautige Arten) ist eng mit der vorigen verwandt und enthält neben Zierpflanzen einige Pseudogetreide, mit protein- und kohlehydratreichen Samen.
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Joseph's Coat (Amaranthus tricolor)
Castor Bean (Ricinus communis)
Cosmos (Cosmos species)
Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
Woodland Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris)
Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum)
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Gomphrena globosa, Amaranthaceae, GLOBE AMARANTH
Leaves opposite, oblong to elliptic, to 4 inches long, margins are entire to ciliate.

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slender amaranth Amaranthus viridis
slender false-brome Brachypodium sylvaticum
slender meadow foxtail Alopecurus myosuroides
slender Russian-thistle Salsola collina
slenderleaf iceplant Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum
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Family: Pigweed (Amaranthaceae)
Flowering: April-October
Field Marks: This mat-forming species is distinguished by its smooth, opposite, toothless leaves and its long-stalked spikes of small white flowers.

Sam Lal is convinced the elephant-shaped Amaranth bloom in his back yard in an incarnation of the Hindu god Ganesh. The nearly 4-foot-tall flower grew in June and began to resemble an elephant's head and trunk in August.

Globe amaranth has an erect branched stem with opposite, oblong leaves.
It has flowerheads in the colors, purple, white and pink, which are borne on spikes.

Chenopodiaceae: Goosefoot Family
Amaranthaceae: Amaranth Family
Portulacaceae: Purslane Family
Aizoaceae: Carpetweed Family
Caryophyllaceae: Pink Family
Simmondsiaceae: Jojoba Family
Tamaricaceae: Tamarisk Family ...

Description:
Globe Amaranth is an annual noted for the long floral display of its individual flowers, which makes them ideal as cut flowers and in dried arrangements.

[38] Native species exclusion is of particular concern because some of the species that share a niche with V. rotundifolia, such as sea beach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus Rafinesque), are presently listed as threatened.[39] ...

Spiny Pigweed, Spiny Amaranth, Pigweed,Spiny
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Amaranthus spinosus ...

Gomphrena globosa--Globe Amaranth
Gynura aurantiaca - Velvet Plant, Purple Velvet Plant
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See also: Green, May, Aster, Lavender, Clematis