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2315

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Rare

Look for it on sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats, rarely on sound-side beaches, per Weakley's Flora

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems not armed

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Unisexual
1-5 sepals (or sepals absent) subtended by 3 bracts
Petals absent

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Utricle

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

"The biggest threat to seabeach amaranth is the destruction of beach habitat." Read more from the South Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amaranthus pumilus FAMILY Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 066-03-009:
Amaranthus pumilus FAMILY Amaranthaceae

COMMON NAME:
Seabeach Amaranth, Dwarf Amaranth

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ampu2_001_lvd