Love-lies-bleeding
ಅಮರಾಂತಸ್ ಕಾಡಟಸ್राजगिरा
Amaranthus caudatus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 46 cm
Amaranthaceae
Also called Purple amaranth
Formerly Amaranthus abyssinicus, Amaranthus alopecurus, Amaranthus baileyanus, Amaranthus cararu, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Ecuador to NW. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, redRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 老枪谷子, 尾穗苋, 尾穗莧
- Asturian
- amarantu
- Czech
- laskavec ocasatý
- German
- Garten-Amarant
- Finnish
- punarevonhäntä
- Dutch
- Kattenstaartamarant
- Simplified Chinese
- 尾穗苋, 老枪谷
- Slovenian
- repati ščir, purmanov žnoder
- Kannada
- ಅಮರಾಂತಸ್ ಕಾಡಟಸ್
- Marathi
- राजगिरा
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Amaranthus caudatus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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