#family_Amaranthaceae__Amaranthaceae__amaranth_family cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
supertype: caryophylloid_dicot_family__caryophylloiddicotfamily family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
member of: order_Caryophyllales
member: genus_Amaranthus__Amaranthus large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs
member: amaranth any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food
member: thorny_amaranth__Amaranthus_spinosus erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes
member: genus_Alternanthera__Alternanthera genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera
member: alligator_weed__alligatorweed__alligatorgras__Alternanthera_philoxeroides prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
member: genus_Celosia__Celosia annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
member: red_fox__Celosia_argentea weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers
member: genus_Froelichia__Froelichia genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed
member: cottonweed any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers
member: genus_Gomphrena__Gomphrena genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia
member: globe_amaranth__globeamaranth__bachelor's_button__Gomphrena_globosa tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
member: genus_Iresine__Iresine genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs
member: bloodleaf any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage
member: genus_Telanthera__Telanthera used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera
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