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Gomphrena globosa
L.
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Common Globe-Amaranth
asblanco
FNA
Gleason & Cronquist
Resources
Steven E. Clemants in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Plants
annual, not cespitose, 3-10 dm; roots fibrous.
Stems
erect, pilose-strigose.
Leaves:
petiole 0.5-2 cm; blade green, oblong to ovate, 2-10 × 0.5-5 cm, apex acute, villous.
Inflorescences:
heads white, yellow, red, or purple, globose, 20-28 mm diam.; bractlets crested along keel.
Flowers:
tube densely lanate; perianth lobes white to pink, lance-subulate, 4.4-5.2 mm, chartaceous, apex acuminate.
Utricles
oblong, 2 mm, apex acute.
Seeds
1.5 mm. Flowering summer-fall. Waste grounds; 10-500 m; introduced; La., N.J., N.Y., Pa., S.C., Tex., Va.; native of s Asia; widely escaped from cultivation.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
A branching annual to 1 m, with terminal, colored heads 2-2.5 cm thick, and with very woolly fls, occasionally escapes from cult.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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