Amaranthus retroflexus L.
 
FamilyAmaranthaceae — APG family: Amaranthaceae
Common namegreen amaranth
DescriptionStem erect, lanate above; leaves rhombic-ovate; inflorescence spicate, leafless at tip, short and dense; bracteoles stout and spinescent; perianth segments 5, enlarged in upper part.
EcologyIntroduced weed at Sitka; certainly not persistent. Described from Pennsylvania.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.