Family: Amaranthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Doubtfully Native
Native Range:
The West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America; cultivated and sometimes naturalizing elsewhere.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 469) for disturbed areas in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 8). Although treated as native to the Bahamas in Correll & Correll and the Flora of the West Indies (Acevedo-Rodriguez & Strong 2012), this more likely represents a recent non-native introduction.
Synonyms:
Alternanthera tenella.
