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Amaranth (Pigweed) Family

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- Kingdom - Plants - Plantae
  - Division - Flowering Plants - Anthophyta
    - Class - Dicots - Dicotyledoneae
      - Order - Caryophyllales - Caryophyllales
        
        Family - Amaranth (Pigweed) Family - Amaranthaceae
        
        Species
        
        American Bugseed
        Corispermum americanum
        
        Other Names: Corispermum hyssopifolium [misapplied]
        Native Species
        
        California Amaranth
        Amaranthus californicus
        Native Species
        
        Common Kochia
        Bassia scoparia
        
        Other Names: Mexican Kochia, Mexican Fireweed, Burningbush, Mexican Summer-cypress, Mexican Firebrush Kochia scoparia
        Non-native Species
        
        Creeping Saltbush
        Atriplex prostrata
        Non-native Species
        
        Cultivated Beet
        Beta vulgaris
        Non-native Species
        Information on this Species is incomplete...
        
        Dark Goosefoot
        Chenopodium atrovirens
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium fremontii var. atrovirens
        Native Species
        
        Desert Goosefoot
        Chenopodium pratericola
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium leptophyllum var. oblongifolium
        Native Species
        
        Five-horn Smotherweed
        Bassia hyssopifolia
        
        Other Names: Five-hook Bassia, Thorn Orache
        Non-native Species
        
        Forage Kochia
        Bassia prostrata
        
        Other Names: Prostrate Kochia, Prostrate Summer Cypress, Perennial Summer Cypress Kochia prostrata
        Non-native Species
        
        Four-wing Saltbush
        Atriplex canescens
        Species of Potential Concern
        Native Species
        
        Fremont's Goosefoot
        Chenopodium fremontii
        Native Species
        
        Garden Orache
        Atriplex hortensis
        
        Other Names: Red Orach, Mountain Spinach, French Spinach
        Non-native Species
        
        Gardner's Saltbush
        Atriplex gardneri
        
        Other Names: Atriplex aptera, Atriplex falcata, Atriplex nuttallii [misapplied]
        Native Species
        
        Giant-seed Goosefoot
        Chenopodium simplex
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium gigantospermum, Chenopodium hybridum
        Native Species
        
        Green Amaranth
        Amaranthus powellii
        Non-native Species
        
        Hairy Bugseed
        Corispermum villosum
        
        Other Names: Corispermum orientale [misapplied]
        Native Species
        
        Halberd-leaf Orache
        Atriplex patula
        
        Other Names: Atriplex hastata
        Native Species
        
        Halogeton
        Halogeton glomeratus
        
        Other Names: Salt-lover, Aral Barilla
        Non-native Species
        
        Horned Sea-blite
        Suaeda calceoliformis
        
        Other Names: Pursh's Seepweed Suaeda americana, Suaeda depressa
        Native Species
        
        Jerusalem-oak Goosefoot
        Chenopodium botrys
        
        Other Names: Sticky Goosefoot Dysphania botrys
        Non-native Species
        
        Low Goosefoot
        Chenopodium chenopodioides
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium botryodes, Oxybasis chenopodioides
        Native Species
        
        Marshland Goosefoot
        Chenopodium rubrum var. humile
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium humile, Oxybasis rubra var. humilis
        Non-native Species
        
        Mealy Goosefoot
        Chenopodium incanum
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium fremontii var. incanum
        Native Species
        
        Mojave Sea-blite
        Suaeda nigra
        
        Other Names: Bush Seepweed Suaeda intermedia, Suaeda moquinii
        Native Species
        
        Narrowleaf Goosefoot
        Chenopodium leptophyllum
        Native Species
        
        Narrowleaf Goosefoot
        Chenopodium desiccatum
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium leptophyllum var. oblongifolium
        Native Species
        
        Nettle-leaf Goosefoot
        Chenopodium murale
        
        Other Names: Nettleleaf Goosefoot Chenopodiastrum murale
        Non-native Species
        
        Nuttall's Povertyweed
        Monolepis nuttalliana
        Native Species
        
        Oakleaf Goosefoot
        Chenopodium glaucum var. glaucum
        
        Other Names: Oxybasis glauca
        Non-native Species
        
        Over's Goosefoot
        Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium overi, Chenopodium foliosum, Blitum hastatum
        Native Species
        
        Palmer's Amaranth
        Amaranthus palmeri
        
        Other Names: Palmer Amaranthus
        Non-native Species
        
        Pit-seed Goosefoot
        Chenopodium berlandieri
        Native Species
        
        Poison Suckleya
        Suckleya suckleyana
        Native Species
        
        Powell's Saltbush
        Atriplex powellii
        Native Species
        
        Prostrate Amaranth
        Amaranthus blitoides
        
        Other Names: Amaranthus graecizans [misapplied]
        Native Species
        
        Red Goosefoot
        Chenopodium rubrum
        
        Other Names: Oxybasis rubra
        Native Species
        
        Red Goosefoot
        Chenopodium rubrum var. rubrum
        
        Other Names: Oxybasis rubra var. rubra
        Native Species
        Information on this Species is incomplete...
        
        Red Sage
        Neokochia americana
        
        Other Names: Green Molly Bassia americana, Kochia americana
        Species of Concern
        Native Species
        
        Redroot Amaranth
        Amaranthus retroflexus
        Native Species
        
        Rocky Mountain Goosefoot
        Chenopodium glaucum var. salinum
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium salinum, Oxybasis salina
        Native Species
        
        Roughfruit Amaranth
        Amaranthus tuberculatus
        
        Other Names: Rough-fruited Water-hemp, Tall Amaranth, Tall Water-hemp, Waterhemp Amaranthus tamariscina
        Non-native Species
        
        Russian Pigweed
        Axyris amaranthoides
        
        Other Names: Upright Axyris
        Non-native Species
        
        Russian Thistle
        Salsola tragus
        
        Other Names: Prickly Russian-thistle, Russian-thistle Salsola australis, Salsola kali [misapplied], Salsola pestifer, Salsola iberica, Salsola kali ssp. tragus
        Non-native Species
        
        Sandhills Amaranth
        Amaranthus arenicola
        Likely Non-native Species
        
        Shadscale
        Atriplex confertifolia
        Native Species
        
        Silvery Saltbush
        Atriplex argentea
        Native Species
        
        Slender Russian-thistle
        Salsola collina
        Non-native Species
        
        Smooth Amaranth
        Amaranthus hybridus
        
        Other Names: Slim Amaranth
        Non-native Species
        
        Smooth Goosefoot
        Chenopodium subglabrum
        
        Other Names: Chenopodium leptophyllum var. subglabrum
        Species of Concern
        Native Species
        
        Spiny Hopsage
        Grayia spinosa
        Species of Concern
        Native Species
        
        Standley's Goosefoot
        Chenopodium standleyanum
        Undetermined Origin
        
        Strawberry Goosefoot
        Chenopodium capitatum var. capitatum
        
        Other Names: Blitum capitatum
        Likely Non-native Species
        
        Strawberry Goosefoot
        Chenopodium capitatum
        
        Other Names: Blitum capitatum
        Native/Non-native Species
        (depends on location or taxa)
        
        Suckley's Saltbush
        Atriplex suckleyi
        
        Other Names: Atriplex dioica (Nutt.) Macbr. [not Raf.], Endolepis dioica, Stutzia dioica
        Species of Potential Concern
        Native Species
        
        Thickleaf Orach
        Atriplex dioica
        
        Other Names: Atriplex subspicata, Atriplex patula var. subspicata
        Native Species
        
        Tumbling Orache
        Atriplex rosea
        
        Other Names: Tumbling Saltweed, Tumbling Saltbush
        Non-native Species
        
        Two-scale Saltbush
        Atriplex heterosperma
        
        Other Names: Two-scale Orache Atriplex micrantha
        Non-native Species
        
        Watson's Goosefoot
        Chenopodium watsonii
        Undetermined Origin
        
        Wedge-leaf Saltbush
        Atriplex truncata
        Species of Concern
        Native Species
        
        Western Glasswort
        Salicornia rubra
        Native Species
        
        Western Sea-blite
        Suaeda occidentalis
        
        Other Names: Western Seepweed
        Native Species
        
        White Amaranth
        Amaranthus albus
        Likely Non-native Species
        
        White Goosefoot
        Chenopodium album
        
        Other Names: Lamb's-quarters
        Non-native Species
        
        Winged Pigweed
        Cycloloma atriplicifolium
        Undetermined Origin
        
        Winterfat
        Krascheninnikovia lanata
        
        Other Names: Ceratoides lanata, Eurotia lanata
        Native Species

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