Amaranthus crassipesSchltdl.

Spreading Amaranthspreading amaranth

WFO wfo-0000530161 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Amaranthus crassipes, photographed by Bob Nieman
fig. a Bob Nieman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-17 / obs. 144138217
Amaranthus crassipes, photographed by Bob Nieman
fig. b Bob Nieman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144138680
Amaranthus crassipes, photographed by Bob Nieman
fig. c Bob Nieman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144138535

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Amaranthus crassipes is native: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Windward Is. AlabamaArizonaFloridaLouisianaMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNew MexicoSouth CarolinaTexasColombiaCubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto RicoVenezuela ArubaBahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Amaranthus crassipes, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bahamas BAH
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Puerto Rico PUE
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
Florida FLA
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
New Mexico NWM
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Amaranthus crassipes var. crassipes
  • Amaranthus warnockii I.M.Johnst.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.