Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Common names include (United States) tumble pigweed, tumbleweed; (Great Britain) pigweed amaranth, prostrate pigweed, white amaranth, and white pigweed.

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Common names include (United States) tumble pigweed, tumbleweed; (Great Britain) pigweed amaranth, prostrate pigweed, white amaranth, and white pigweed.

Although both its leaves and its seeds are edible, pigweed amaranth has not been cultivated as a food crop.

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Common names include (United States) tumble pigweed, tumbleweed; (Great Britain) pigweed amaranth, prostrate pigweed, white amaranth, and white pigweed.

At the Mount Baker site, comprising 40 plots in southeast Seattle, longtime residents plant tomatoes, artichokes and raspberries alongside Laotian immigrants who grow fruits and vegetables from seeds they have brought from their homeland, like red and white amaranth, ghee (an herb with lime-green, heart-shaped leaves), Chinese spinach and garlic.

It is sometimes also called pigweed, although that name is often also used for Amaranthus albus.

Amaranthus albus (I)

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Some favoured species include bluegrass, curled dock, lambsquarters, yellow rocket and redroot pigweed.

Weeds, such as ragweed, sagebrush, redroot pigweed, lamb's quarters, goosefoot, tumbleweed (Russian thistle), and English plantain.

Forbs eaten include "kochia, Missouri milkvetch, sand sagebrush, western sticktight, sunflower, redroot pigweed, bracted spiderwort, rusty lupine, western ragweed".

Acalypha rhomboidea also resembles young Redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.), but may be distinguished from the latter by the flower clusters, bracts, and occasionally bronze-green leaves of the former.

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Iza dug up the red-rooted pigweed and headed for a marshy area beside sluggish backwater and found scouring-rush horsetail ferns and, farther upstream, soaproot.

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Ayla was nervous as she raced to dig up soaproot, horsetail fern, and red-rooted pigweed, and her stomach was a bundle of knots while she waited anxiously for boiling water from one of the cooking fires to extract the insecticidal element from the fern.

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Although both its leaves and its seeds are edible, pigweed amaranth has not been cultivated as a food crop.

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.

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Herbaceous weeds, such as white goosefoot (Chenopodium album) and common tumble weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) in the United States, also act as hosts.

The larvae feed on the seeds of Amaranthus hybridus, Amaranthus retroflexus and possibly Prunus and Persica species.

Acalypha rhomboidea also resembles young Redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.), but may be distinguished from the latter by the flower clusters, bracts, and occasionally bronze-green leaves of the former.

Species inoculated with virus that do not show signs of susceptibility: Allium cepa, Allium fistulosum, Amaranthus retroflexus, Apium graveolens, Beta vulgaris, Brassica campestris ssp.