Taxon: Gomphrena globosa L.

Common names:

• bachelor's-button   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• common globe-amaranth   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• globe-amaranth   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• qian ri hong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• amarantine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kugelamarant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sennichikō   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• amarantina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• amor seco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• eterna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• klotamarant   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Diseas Comp; Crop Prod Sci Hort 9:134.)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Guinea; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [e. & s.]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Kiribati - Gilbert Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Ecuador

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Rwanda
  West Tropical Africa: Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Ecuador; Peru
• widely cultivated

• exact native range obscure, probable origin neotropics

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Check other web resources for Gomphrena globosa L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

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• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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