Amaranthus blitoides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Amaranthus
- Species
- Amaranthus blitoides
- Scientific Name
- Amaranthus blitoides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Amaranthus blitoides
Amaranthus blitoides, commonly called mat amaranth, prostrate pigweed, procumbent pigweed, prostrate amaranth, or matweed, is a glabrous annual plants species. It usually grows up to 0.6 m, though it may grow up to 1 m (3 feet). It flowers in the summer to fall.
It is believed to have been a native of the central and possibly eastern United States, but it has naturalized in almost all of temperate North America. It has also naturalized in South America and Eurasia. Some authorities list it as an invasive species.
...Amaranthus blitoides in languages:
- Arabic
- قطيقة منبطحة
- Bokmål
- meldeamarant
- Catalan
- amarant blitoide
- Chinese
- 北美莧
- Czech
- laskavec žmindovitý
- Dutch
- Nerfamarant
- English
- procumbent pigweed
- English
- prostrate pigweed
- Finnish
- lusikkarevonhäntä
- French
- amarante fausse-blite
- Hebrew
- ירבוז שרוע
- Hungarian
- labodás disznóparéj
- Japanese
- アメリカビユ
- Portuguese
- bredo
- Portuguese
- erva-aranha
- Russian
- Щирица жминдовидная
- Swedish
- skedamarant
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Amaranthus acanthobracteatus
- Amaranthus acanthochiton
- Amaranthus albus
- Amaranthus anderssonii
- Amaranthus angustifolius
- Amaranthus arenicola
- Amaranthus asplundii
- Amaranthus australis
- Amaranthus blitoides
- Amaranthus blitum
- Amaranthus brandegeei
- Amaranthus brownii
- Amaranthus californicus
- Amaranthus cannabinus
- Amaranthus capensis
- Amaranthus celosioides
- Amaranthus clementii
- Amaranthus cochleitepalus
- Amaranthus congestus
- Amaranthus crassipes
- Amaranthus crispus
- Amaranthus deflexus
- Amaranthus dinteri
- Amaranthus fimbriatus
- Amaranthus floridanus
- Amaranthus furcatus
- Amaranthus graecizans
- Amaranthus grandiflorus
- Amaranthus greggii
- Amaranthus hunzikeri
- Amaranthus hybridus
- Amaranthus interruptus
- Amaranthus kloosianus
- Amaranthus lepturus
- Amaranthus macrocarpus
- Amaranthus mitchellii
- Amaranthus muricatus
- Amaranthus neei
- Amaranthus obcordatus
- Amaranthus pedersenianus
- Amaranthus persimilis
- Amaranthus peruvianus
- Amaranthus polygonoides
- Amaranthus praetermissus
- Amaranthus pumilus
- Amaranthus rudis
- Amaranthus scariosus
- Amaranthus schinzianus
- Amaranthus scleropoides
- Amaranthus sonoriensis
- Amaranthus squamulatus
- Amaranthus standleyanus
- Amaranthus tamaulipensis
- Amaranthus thunbergii
- Amaranthus torreyi
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Amaranthus tuberculatus
- Amaranthus tucsonensis
- Amaranthus undulatus
- Amaranthus urceolatus
- Amaranthus venulosus
- Amaranthus viridis
- Amaranthus viscidulus
- Amaranthus × ozanonii
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