- Source: Amaranthus albus
Amaranthus albus is an annual species of flowering plant. It is native to the tropical Americas but a widespread introduced species in other places, including Europe, Africa and Australia.
Common names include common tumbleweed, tumble pigweed, tumbleweed, prostrate pigweed, pigweed amaranth, white amaranth and white pigweed.
Amaranthus albus is an annual herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, forming many branches. Larger specimens turn into tumbleweeds when they die and dry out. The plant creates small, greenish flowers in clumps in the axils of the leaves. Male and female flowers are mixed together in the same clump.
In Cambodia, the leaves of the plant (which is known as phti sâ, Khmer language) is used as pig-feed, and are sometimes cooked and eaten by people.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Amaranthus albus in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bayam
- Gulma gelinding
- Flora Lebanon
- Daftar spesies Demospongiae
- Amaranthus albus
- Pigweed
- Amaranth
- Prostrate pigweed
- List of Amaranthus species
- Tumbleweed
- Amaranth grain
- Tumbleweed (disambiguation)
- 10th edition of Systema Naturae
- List of Canadian plants by family A
