Family: Amaranthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Annual
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Assumed to be Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Secure
Native Range:
The West Indies, North America (in part), Mexico, Central America and South America; widely naturalized outside its native range.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for disturbed areas in the central and southwestern Commonwealth (Fortune Island, Anguilla Cays). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 471-472) for “open flats about damp areas” and in fallow fields nearly throughout the Commonwealth (regions 10-7, 5-3, 11). Apparently spreading as a weed.
