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Your search found 12 taxa in the family Amaranthaceae, Pigweed family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Alligator-weed
Look for it floating in mats on the surface of the waters of blackwater rivers, sloughs, ditches, ponds, and in very moist soils of ditches & shores
Common. A serious weed of natural areas
Non-native: Tropical America
Common Name:
Sessile Joyweed
Look for it in disturbed wet muck
Rare in GA & SC
Non-native: Tropics
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Common Name:
Japanese Chaff-flower
Look for it in bottomland forests, disturbed areas
Rare in GA, now acting as a serious invasive species
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Smooth Pigweed, Smooth Amaranth, Green Amaranth, Hybrid Amaranth
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Native distribution uncertain, but apparently native to eastern US
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Native south and west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spiny Amaranth
Look for it in fields, gardens, roadsides, barnyards, pastures
Common
Non-native: Tropical America
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Common Name:
Seabeach Amaranth, Dwarf Amaranth
Look for it on sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats, rarely on sound-side beaches
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Southern Water-hemp, Southern Amaranth, Careless
Look for it in tidal marshes, ditches, disturbed areas
Rare
Native to Georgia (perhaps) and southward into South America (introduced in NC)
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Common Name:
Tropical Amaranth, Smartweed Amaranth
Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Florida Cottonweed, Florida Cottonseed
Look for it in sandhills, sandy fields, sandy roadsides
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Cottonweed
Look for it in vacant lots, sandy fields, railroad banks
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native: Midwest US
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Look for it in sandy fields, other disturbed areas
Rare
Native: central & western US
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