Amaranthus

Accepted species 105 Documented here 26 Family Amaranthaceae

Accepted species 105 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Amaranthus retroflexus L. 1,236 documented
Amaranthus palmeri S.Watson 468 documented
Amaranthus deflexus L. 346 documented
Amaranthus albus L. 257 documented
Amaranthus viridis L. 212 documented
Amaranthus blitum L. 185 documented
Amaranthus fimbriatus (Torr.) Benth. ex S.Watson 145 documented
Amaranthus cruentus L. 138 documented
Amaranthus blitoides S.Watson 115 documented
Amaranthus hybridus L. 111 documented
Amaranthus powellii S.Watson 77 documented
Amaranthus spinosus L. 76 documented
Amaranthus polygonoides L. 56 documented
Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) J.D.Sauer 40 documented
Amaranthus cannabinus (L.) Sauer 38 documented
Amaranthus acanthochiton Sauer 27 documented
Amaranthus watsonii Standl. 24 documented
Amaranthus muricatus (Moq.) Hieron. 15 documented
Amaranthus australis (A.Gray) Sauer 14 documented
Amaranthus pumilus Raf. 14 documented
Amaranthus caudatus L. 13 documented
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L. 13 documented
Amaranthus greggii S.Watson 12 documented
Amaranthus thunbergii Moq. 8 documented
Amaranthus arenicola I.M.Johnst. 6 documented
Amaranthus crassipes Schltdl. 3 documented
Amaranthus dubius Mart. ex Thell. 2 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus grandiflorus (J.M.Black) J.M.Black 2 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus mitchellii Benth. 1 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus tricolor L. 1 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus × adulterinus Thell. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus × budensis Priszter 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus × ozanonii Priszter 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus × soproniensis Priszter & Kárpáti 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus × texensis Henrickson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus acanthobracteatus Henrickson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus anderssonii J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus asplundii Thell. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus atropurpureus Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus aureus F.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus bahiensis Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus bigelowii Uline & W.L.Bray 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus brandegeei Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus brasiliensis Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus brownii Christoph. & Caum 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus californicus (Moq.) S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus campestris Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus capensis Thell. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus caracasanus Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus cardenasianus Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus caturus Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus celosioides Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus centralis J.Palmer & Mowatt 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus chihuahensis S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus clementii Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus cochleitepalus Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus commutatus Kerner 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus congestus C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thévenau) A.Braun ex J.M.Coult. & S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus cuspidifolius Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus dinteri Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus floridanus (S.Watson) Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus furcatus J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus globosa L. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus graecizans L. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus haughtii Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus hunzikeri N.Bayón 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus induratus C.A.Gardner ex J.Palmer & Mowatt 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus interruptus R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus kloosianus Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus leptostachyus Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus lepturus S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus lombardoi Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus looseri Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus macrocarpus Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus minimus Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus pallidiflorus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus paolii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus paraguayensis D.Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus parvulus Peter 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus persimilis Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus peruvianus (S.Schauer) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus polygamus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus polystachyus Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus praetermissus Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus pringlei S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus rosengurttii Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus roxburghianus H.W.Kung 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus scandens L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus scariosus Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus schinzianus Thell. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus scleranthoides (Andersson) Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus scleropoides Uline & W.L.Bray 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus sparganicephalus Thell. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus squamulatus (Andersson) B.L.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus standleyanus Parodi ex Covas 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus tamariscinus Nutt. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus tamaulipensis Henrickson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus tenuifolius Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus thellungianus Nevski ex Vassilcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus tucsonensis Henrickson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus urceolatus Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus venulosus S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus vulgatissimus Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Amaranthus wrightii S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.