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Your search found 12 taxa in the family Amaranthaceae, Pigweed family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Alligator-weed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Alternanthera philoxeroides FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Alternanthera philoxeroides FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Alternanthera philoxeroides 066-01-002 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it floating in mats on the surface of the waters of blackwater rivers, sloughs, ditches, ponds, and in very moist soils of ditches & shores
Common. A serious weed of natural areas
Non-native: Tropical America
Common Name:
Sessile Joyweed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Alternanthera sessilis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Alternanthera sessilis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in disturbed wet muck
Rare in GA & SC
Non-native: Tropics
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Common Name:
Japanese Chaff-flower
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Achyranthes japonica var. hachijoensis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Achyranthes japonica var. hachijoensis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in bottomland forests, disturbed areas
Rare in GA, now acting as a serious invasive species
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Smooth Pigweed, Smooth Amaranth, Green Amaranth, Hybrid Amaranth
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Amaranthus hybridus FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus hybridus FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amaranthus hybridus 066-03-002 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Native distribution uncertain, but apparently native to eastern US
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Common Name: Careless-weed, Palmer's Amaranth
Weakley's Flora: (6/30/18) Amaranthus palmeri FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus palmeri FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amaranthus palmeri 066-03-004 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Native south and west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spiny Amaranth
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Amaranthus spinosus FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus spinosus FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amaranthus spinosus 066-03-006 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in fields, gardens, roadsides, barnyards, pastures
Common
Non-native: Tropical America
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Common Name:
Seabeach Amaranth, Dwarf Amaranth
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Amaranthus pumilus FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus pumilus FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amaranthus pumilus 066-03-009 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it on sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats, rarely on sound-side beaches
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Southern Water-hemp, Southern Amaranth, Careless
Weakley's Flora: (6/30/18) Amaranthus australis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus australis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in tidal marshes, ditches, disturbed areas
Rare
Native to Georgia (perhaps) and southward into South America (introduced in NC)
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Common Name:
Tropical Amaranth, Smartweed Amaranth
Weakley's Flora: (6/30/18) Amaranthus polygonoides FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus polygonoides FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Florida Cottonweed, Florida Cottonseed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Froelichia floridana FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Froelichia floridana var. floridana FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Froelichia floridana 066-05-001 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in sandhills, sandy fields, sandy roadsides
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Cottonweed
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Froelichia gracilis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Froelichia gracilis FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Froelichia gracilis 066-05-002 FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in vacant lots, sandy fields, railroad banks
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native: Midwest US
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Common Name: Plains Cottonseed
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Froelichia campestris FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Froelichia floridana var. campestris FAMILY: Amaranthaceae
Look for it in sandy fields, other disturbed areas
Rare
Native: central & western US
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