Taxon: Amaranthus pumilus Raf.

Species on the following lists:

• Center for Plant Conservation
  
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Threatened
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• coast amaranth   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• seabeach amaranthus   (Source: End Sp TBull 18-2:13) – English
  
• seabeach pigweed   (Source: CPC Nat Coll ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut [coastal], Massachusetts, New Jersey [coastal], New York [coastal], Pennsylvania, Rhode Island [coastal]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware [coastal], Maryland [coastal], North Carolina [coastal], South Carolina, Virginia [coastal]

References:

• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland. (HPl Mary)
• Center for Plant Conservation. Center for Plant Conservation National Collection of Endangered Plants - on-line resource. (CPC Nat Coll)
• Department of the Interior, United States Fish & Wildlife Service. 1993. Endang. Spec. Techn. Bull. 18(2):13.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• McAvoy, W. A. 2002. Amaranthus pumilis Raf. (seabeach amaranth, Amaranthaceae) rediscovered in Sussex County, Delaware. Bartonia 61:147–148.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants - on-line resource. (US Fish & Wildl List)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Amaranthus pumilus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Amaranthus pumilus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Amaranthus pumilus Raf.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

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• Images 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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