Family: Amaranthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
The Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Central America and South America; widely cultivated and naturalized.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 466) as sometimes escaping from cultivated plants in the northwestern and central Commonwealth (regions 10, 8, 4).
