Index / Search / Amaranthus crassipes
§1 Plant
Amaranthus crassipes Schltdl.
vernacular spreading amaranth — species · Amaranthaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Amaranthaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Amaranthus
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
County-level range
· 40 counties across 6 states/territories§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 40 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 B ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 B ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 B ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Texas view state ↗ 32 B ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Cameron 48061
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dimmit 48127
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Karnes 48255
- Kimble 48267
- Loving 48301
- McLennan 48309
- Midland 48329
- Mitchell 48335
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- San Patricio 48409
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AMCR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384404 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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