OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 13 taxa in the family Amaranthaceae, Pigweed family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon Common Name: Alligator-weed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

 

Habitat: Floating in mats on the surface of the waters of blackwater rivers, sloughs, ditches, ponds, and in very moist soil of ditches and shores

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

Non-native: tropical America

 


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camera icon Common Name: Sessile Joyweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Alternanthera sessilis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Alternanthera sessilis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed wet muck

Rare

Non-native: Tropics

 


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camera icon Common Name: Japanese Chaff-flower

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Achyranthes japonica var. hachijoensis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Achyranthes japonica var. hachijoensis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Bottomland forests, disturbed areas

Uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in Mountains

Non-native: east Asia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Smooth Pigweed, Smooth Amaranth, Green Amaranth, Slim Amaranth

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Amaranthus hybridus ssp. hybridus   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus hybridus   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amaranthus hybridus 066-03-002   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: 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: (4/24/22) 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

 

Habitat: Arroyos, riverbanks, and disturbed areas; eastwards adventive in fields and disturbed areas

Rare

Native south and west of the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Spiny Amaranth

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

 

Habitat: Fields, gardens, roadsides, barnyards, pastures

Common

Non-native: tropical America

 


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Common Name: Slender Amaranth, Tropical Green Amaranth

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Amaranthus viridis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus viridis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amaranthus viridis 066-03-008   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Non-native: South America

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Seabeach Amaranth, Dwarf Amaranth

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

 

Habitat: Sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats, rarely on sound-side beaches

Rare

Native to the Carolinas

 


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camera icon Common Name: Southern Water-hemp, Southern Amaranth, Careless

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Amaranthus australis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus australis   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Tidal marshes, freshwater wetlands (swamps, strands, sloughs, marshes), ditches, disturbed areas

Rare or waif(s)

Native to Georgia Coastal Plain (introduced elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

 


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camera icon Common Name: Tropical Amaranth, Smartweed Amaranth

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Amaranthus polygonoides   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amaranthus polygonoides   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Waif(s)

Non-native: tropical America

 


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camera icon Common Name: Florida Cottonseed, Common Cottonweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Froelichia floridana var. floridana   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Froelichia floridana var. floridana   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Froelichia floridana 066-05-001   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy fields, sandy roadsides

Common (uncommon in NC, rare in GA Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Slender Cottonweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) 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

 

Habitat: Dry soils; eastwards adventive in vacant lots, sandy fields, railroad banks

Rare

Native: Midwest US

 


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Common Name: Plains Cottonseed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Froelichia floridana var. campestris   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Froelichia floridana var. campestris   FAMILY: Amaranthaceae

 

Habitat: Sandy fields, other disturbed areas

Native: central & western US

 


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