Purple amaranth
முளைக்கீரைपोकळा
Amaranthus blitum L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Amaranthaceae
Also called Livid amaranth, Mediterranean amaranth, Guernsey pigweed, Slender amaranth, Least amaranth
Formerly Euxolus blitum, Glomeraria blitum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Peru to Brazil and N. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Amaranto púrpura
- French
- Amarante sauvage, Amarante blette, amarante livide
- Czech
- laskavec hrubozel
- Danish
- plet-amarant
- Dutch
- kleine majer, Kleine majer
- Russian
- Амарант жминда, Щирица жминда, щирица жминда
- Chinese
- 凹葉野莧菜, 凹頭莧, 凹头苋
- Finnish
- pinaattirevonhäntä, Pinaattirevonhäntä
- Lithuanian
- Uoginis burnotis
- Arabic
- بقلة يمانية
- Catalan
- Blet blanc
- Chinese (China)
- 凹头苋
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Amaranthus blitum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.