Family: Amaranthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Annual
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
South America; widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 479-481, with illustrations) as escaped from cultivation in disturbed areas in the central Commonwealth (region 7).
Comments:
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