Taxon:  Amaranthus caudatus L.



Summary
Genus:
Amaranthus
Subgenus:
Amaranthus
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Nomen number:
2789
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:990.  1753
Verified:
02/04/2003 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (0  active, 0  available) in Nordic Baltic Genebanks.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Reference(s)
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Common names
LANGUAGENAMEALTERNATE NAMENOTESEQCITATION
English foxtail 1 Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:75.
English foxtail amaranth 1 FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English Inca-wheat 1 Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English love-lies-bleeding 1 Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English purple amaranth 1 FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English red-hot-cattail 1 Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:75.
English tassel-flower 1 Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English velvet-flower 1 Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Arabic kef alemhena 2 Migahid, A. M. 1988-1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
French amarante caudée 2 Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
French amarante queue-de-renard 2 Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
French discipline des religieux 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French queue de renard 2 Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:75.
German Gartenfuchsschwanz 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German Inkaweizen 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India (Sanskrit) jataco 2 1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Japanese Rōmaji himo-geitō 2 Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Japanese Rōmaji sennin-koku 2 Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Portuguese moncos-de-Peru 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Quichua (Peru) coimi 2 Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Quichua (Peru) cuipa 2 Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Spanish achita 2 Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Spanish bledo francés 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish kiwicha 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish quilete 2 FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Spanish trigo del Inca 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish rävsvans 2 Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese lao qiang gu 2 Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean julmaendeurami 2 Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2CultivatedAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChina w.
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
2CultivatedNorthern America United States  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentina n.w.
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBolivia  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaEcuador  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaPeru  
Cultivated
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China (w.)
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Nepal
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Southern America
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (n.w.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986-2000. European garden flora.
Environmentalornamental FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Environmentalornamental Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Human foodpseudocereal Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Weedpotential seed contaminant Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://nordic-baltic-genebanks.org/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=2789. Accessed 22 November 2024.