AMARANTH FAMILY. Amarantacex. 



AMARANTH FAMILY. Amarantacece. 



Weeds ; some of those of a ruddy color, mostly foreign, 

 are widely cultivated. The perfect flowers with lapping 

 scales or leaflets (generally three) which retain their color 

 when dry ; hence the name 'A/xdpavroS, meaning un- 

 fading. 



An annoying weed, common in culti- 

 vated ground and in gardens, with light 

 green roughish leaves and stem ; leaves 

 long-stemmed and angularly ovate. The 

 dull green flowers in a stiff bristly spike. 

 1-8 feet high. Common east and west, in- 

 troduced from the old world. 



A similar species, but smoother and a 

 darker green, with slenderer linear-cylin- 

 drical, bending spikes, branching. The 

 flowers also similar, but with more acute 

 sepals. 2-6 feet high. Apparently indi- 

 genous in the southwest, but introduced eastward 

 (Gray's Manual). Troublesome in gardens. 

 Tumble Weed A low, smooth, greenish white-stemmed 

 Amarantusal- species with light green, small obovate 

 leaves, obtuse at the point, and with many 

 branches. The flowers green, and crowded 

 in close small clusters, at the stem of each 

 leaf. 6-20 inches high. In the west, late in autumn, 

 the withered plant is uprooted and tumbles about in the 

 wind, hence the popular name. Common in waste 

 places. 



Pigweed 



Amarantus re- 

 troflexu8 

 Green 



August-Octo- 

 ber 



Amarantus 

 chlorostachys 

 Green 



August-Octo- 

 ber 



bus 

 Green 



July-Septem 

 ber 



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