Taxon:
Amaranthus caudatus L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:990. 1753
Verified:
02/04/2003
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
foxtail – foxtail amaranth – Inca-wheat – love-lies-bleeding – purple amaranth – red-hot-cattail – tassel-flower – velvet-flower – Arabic
kef alemhena – Chinese
lao qiang gu (老枪谷) – French
amarante caudée – amarante queue-de-renard – discipline des religieux – queue de renard – German
Gartenfuchsschwanz – Inkaweizen – India (Sanskrit)
jataco – Japanese Rōmaji
himo-geitō – sennin-koku – Portuguese
moncos-de-Peru – Quichua (Peru)
coimi – cuipa – Spanish
achita – bledo francés – kiwicha – quilete – trigo del Inca – Swedish
rävsvans – Transcribed Chinese
lao qiang gu – Transcribed Korean
julmaendeurami –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Ethiopia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | w. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
2 | Cultivated | Northern America | | United States | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | n.w. |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
Cultivated
Africa
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
Asia-Temperate
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bhutan, India, Nepal
Northern America
Southern America
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina (n.w.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986-2000. European garden flora. |
Environmental | ornamental | | FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/ |
Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Human food | pseudocereal | | Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |
Weed | potential seed contaminant | | Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia |