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§1 Plant

Amaranthus arenicola I.M. Johnst.

vernacular sandhill amaranth — species · Amaranthaceae


USDA
AMAR
GBIF
5384355
Rank
species
sandhill amaranth (Amaranthus arenicola)
Platephotograph · Estela Perez source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Amaranthaceae Martinov
Genus
Amaranthus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 217 counties across 23 states/territories
Legend Native · 217 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 217 counties across 23 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 2 N
Colorado view state ↗ 21 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Kansas view state ↗ 35 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N
Montana view state ↗ 1 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 28 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N
Texas view state ↗ 52 N
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 4 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/AMAR ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5384355 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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