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Amaranthus powellii
Also called Powell's Smooth Amaranth, Polwell's Amaranth, Powell's Pigweed, Green Amaranth, Green Pigweed
Powell's amaranth is an annual weed-type herb of the amaranth family, native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico and now naturalized across much of the temperate Americas. It grows easily from seed in warm, open ground and is mainly a field and garden weed rather than an ornamental.
Amaranthus powellii is a species of amaranth known by the common names Powell's amaranth and green amaranth.
It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, but it is common throughout most of the rest of the temperate Americas as a naturalized species.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amaranthus powellii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
