Gomphrena martiana |
Gomphrena serrata |
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globe amaranth |
arrasa con todo |
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Habit | Plants perennial, not cespitose, 0.4–1.5 dm; roots unknown. | Plants perennial or annual, not cespitose, 1–10 dm; roots fibrous. |
Stems | erect, sparsely pilose. |
prostrate, procumbent, or decumbent, pilose. |
Leaves | petiole 0.4–1.4 cm; blade green, elliptic, 2.3–3.5 × 0.7–1 cm, apex acute, pilose. |
sessile or petiolate; petiole to 0.6 cm; blade green, obovate to oblong, 1.5–7.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, apex rounded or obtuse, pilose-sericeous. |
Inflorescences | heads white, subglobose, 7–11 mm diam., not subtended by 2 leaves; bractlets white, slightly ridged abaxially, not crested. |
heads white tinged with pink or red, globose to short-cylindric, 9–13 mm diam.; bractlets with denticulate crests along keel. |
Flowers | tube glabrous; perianth lobes white, lanceolate, 3.2 mm, chartaceous, margins entire, apex acuminate. |
tube densely lanate; perianth lobes white, narrowly oblong, 4–5 mm, apex attenuate. |
Seeds | not seen. |
1.2 mm. |
Utricles | not seen. |
ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute. |
Gomphrena martiana |
Gomphrena serrata |
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Phenology | Flowering fall. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Wool-waste areas | Lawns, roadsides, sandy open areas, woodlands, hammocks |
Elevation | 30 m [100 ft] | 0-1500 m [0-4900 ft] |
Distribution |
NY; South America [Introduced in North America] |
FL; GA; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 452. | FNA vol. 4, p. 453. |
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Synonyms | G. decumbens, G. dispersa | |
Name authority | Gillies ex Moquin-Tandon: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 400. (1849) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 224. (1753) |
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