Index / Search / Amaranthus polygonoides
§1 Plant
Amaranthus polygonoides L.
vernacular tropical 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 Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
County-level range
· 26 counties across 2 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 26 counties across 2 states/territories.
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bexar 48029
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Cameron 48061
- Colorado 48089
- Crockett 48105
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jim Wells 48249
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Madison 48313
- McLennan 48309
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- San Patricio 48409
- Starr 48427
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AMPO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384342 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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