Smooth Pigweed

Growing habits: Erect summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from well-developed taproot, may be red

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternately arranged, simple, ovate

Reproduction: Inflorescences are terminal panicles of numerous slender, cylindrical spikes

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}