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globe amaranth

arrasa con todo

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

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
from FNA
NY; South America [Introduced in North America]
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from FNA
FL; GA; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 452. Treatment author: Steven E. Clemants. FNA vol. 4, p. 453. Treatment author: Steven E. Clemants.
Parent taxa Amaranthaceae > Gomphrena Amaranthaceae > Gomphrena
Sibling taxa
G. caespitosa, G. globosa, G. haageana, G. nealleyi, G. nitida, G. serrata, G. sonorae, G. viridis
G. caespitosa, G. globosa, G. haageana, G. martiana, G. nealleyi, G. nitida, G. sonorae, G. viridis
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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