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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.

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
Synonyms
Amaranthus hybridus cruentus - (L.)Thell.
Amaranthus paniculatus - L.

Amaranthus tricolor and cvs. (Chinese spinach, Tampala, Joseph's coat)
Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Benner
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Comments: This Amaranthus is grown for its brilliantly
colored foliage (Vis. 1) rather than its flowers. The
foliage can be red, yellow, and green in various
combinations. Some red-leaved cultivars are referred to in
catalogs as summer poinsettia.

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.
Synonym:
Family: Amaranthaceae ...

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

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.

Amaranth [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 157, Hits: 1661]
Amaranth is the common name for members of a family Amaranthaceae of warm-region herbs, trees, and vines
Updated On: 10/25/2007 ...

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

Amaranthus cruentus 'Hot Biscuits'
Amaranthus paniculatus
Amaranthaceae ...

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.

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

Family:
Amaranthaceae
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.

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.
Celosia argentea var. . crista (Hahnenkamm) ...

Location
Globe amaranth is native to Panama and Guatemala in Central America.

slender amaranth Amaranthus viridis
slender false-brome Brachypodium sylvaticum
slender meadow foxtail Alopecurus myosuroides
slender Russian-thistle Salsola collina
slenderleaf iceplant Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum
slender-leaved naiad Najas minor ...

Some other common tumbleweeds, such as Amaranthus albus or A. graecizans, are members of the family Amaranthaceae (amaranth family), naturalized from tropical America and now common weed pests in Western agricultural fields.

They include gaillardia, gazania (some flower all year), gerbera, geraniums, gladioli, globe amaranth, globe gilia, godetia, gypsofila, hibiscus (variegated and other, as bushes or hedges), hollyhock, honeysuckle, hydrangeas, ...

Princes Feather, Love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus) - Annual plants, some of distinct habit and color. The old Love-lies-bleeding (A. caudatus), with its dark-red pendent racemes, is a fine plant when well grown, but A.

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.

Gomphrena globosa--Globe Amaranth
Gynura aurantiaca - Velvet Plant, Purple Velvet Plant
GYNURA INSECTS ...

Pigweed (Amaranthus spp.)
Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum L.)
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze)
Poke (Phytolacca americana L.)
Purple Mint (Perilla frutescens)
Redroot see Pigweed
Rhododendron (Rhododendron spp.) ...

See also: Amaranthus, Green, May, Pink, Globe amaranth