Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Amaranthus > Amaranthus albusAmaranthus albus (pigweed amaranth; pigweed; prostrate pigweed; tumble pigweed; tumbleweed; white pigweed)Synonyms: Amaranthus albus f. rubricapsulata; Amaranthus albus var. albus; Amaranthus albus var. monosepalus; Amaranthus albus var. parviflorus; Amaranthus albus var. puberulus; Amaranthus albus var. pubescens; Amaranthus albus var. rubicundus; Amaranthus campestris; Amaranthus gracilentus; Amaranthus graecizans; Amaranthus graecizans var. pubescens (heterotypic); Amaranthus littoralis (heterotypic); Amaranthus pubescens; Euxolus albidus; Galliaria albida; Glomeraria alba (homotypic); Pyxidium sylvestre (heterotypic) Amaranthus albus is an annual species of flowering plant. It is native to the tropical Americas but a widespread introduced species in other places, including Europe, Africa, and Australia. Common names include common tumbleweed, tumble pigweed, tumbleweed, prostrate pigweed, pigweed amaranth, white amaranth, and white pigweed. |
Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Acadia National Park |
II |
35996 |
Maine, United States |
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Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik |
Ia |
167827 |
Astrakhan, Russia |
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Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Badlands National Park |
II |
178535 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Hist. Park National Historical Park |
V |
19586 |
Maryland, District of Columbia, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Devils Tower National Monument |
V |
1361 |
Wyoming, United States |
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Flinders Chase National Park |
II |
81245 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Fort Larned National Historic Site |
III |
706 |
Kansas, United States |
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Galichia Gora Zapovednik |
Ia |
568 |
Lipetsk, Russia |
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Gateway National Recreation Area |
V |
1807 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Grasslands National Park |
II |
128635 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Humber Estuary |
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90582 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Jornada Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
30913 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Khopersky Zapovednik |
Ia |
47103 |
Russia |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Okskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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190748 |
Russia |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
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6101 |
California, United States |
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Pipe Spring National Monument |
V |
41 |
Arizona, United States |
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Pipestone National Monument |
V |
326 |
Minnesota, United States |
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Point Pelee National Park |
II |
5764 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Prince Albert National Park |
II |
976762 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve |
V |
1777 |
Spain |
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Rondeau Provincial Park |
II |
5035 |
Ontario, Canada |
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San Dimas Biosphere Reserve |
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17161 |
California, United States |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Shenandoah National Park |
II |
108221 |
Virginia, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Table Mountain |
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California, United States |
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Ukrainskii Stepnoi Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik |
Ia |
2920 |
Ukraine |
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Ussuriysky Zapovednik |
Ia |
99910 |
Primorsky Krai , Russia |
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Voronezhskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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95835 |
Russia |
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Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve |
II |
2196863 |
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 5FOODS OF SCALED QUAIL (CALLIPEPLA SQUAMATA) IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO, TROY L. BEST, The Texas Journal of Science, Vol. XXXVII, Nos. 2&3, September 1985, p. 155-162 ♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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