Redroot Amaranth
அமரான்தசு ரெட்ரோபிளக்சசுപച്ച ചീര
Amaranthus retroflexus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Amaranthaceae
Also called Redroot Pigweed, Common Amaranth, Redroot, Common Tumble Weed, Green amaranth
Formerly Amaranthus bulgaricus, Amaranthus bullatus, Amaranthus curvifolius, Amaranthus delilei, and 10 more
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
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1–1 m; Plants for a Future 0.5–2 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Quelite de agua, Amaranto, bledo
- root
- AMARET, Wasorí, Урвуу гагадай
- French
- amarante à racine rouge, amarante réfléchie, Amarante réfléchie
- Russian
- Щирица запрокинутая, Амарант запрокинутый
- Hebrew
- ירבוז מופשל
- German
- Zurückgebogener Amarant, Rauhhaariger Fuchssschwanz, Zurückgebogener Fuchsschwanz
- Czech
- laskavec ohnutý
- Chinese
- 反刺莧, 反枝莧, 野苋菜
- Danish
- Opret amarant, Opret Amarant
- Dutch
- Papegaaienkruid, papegaaienkruid
- Greek
- Βλήτο το ανακάμπτον, Αγριόβλητο
- Korean
- 털비름
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Amaranthus retroflexus (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.