Slender Amaranth

(Amaranthus viridis)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect to spreading many branched summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from well-developed taproot, may or may not be red

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, simple, ovate to oblong/elliptic-ovate, margins entire or slightly undulate

Reproduction: terminal and axillary spikes forming panicle, bracts much shorter than flowers

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