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Amaranthaceae (Amaranth) Family

Vegetative parts often red-pigmented; flowers inconspicuous and in clusters or spikes; subtended by persistent greenish bractlets.

Prostrate Pigweed Amaranthus blitoides

Redroot Pigweed Amaranthus retroflexus

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