Common Name

Large-flower Amaranth

Family

Amaranthaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 40cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-6cm long, flat, hairless. Flowers pale, with 5 'petals', in chaffy globular clusters at the bases of the leaves. Vulnerable Vic.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 282

PlantNET description with line drawing and photo of dried plant:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Amaranthus~grandiflorus