Mat Amaranth
(prostrate pigweed, procumbent pigweed, prostrate amaranth, or matweed)

Amaranthus blitoides

San Juan Creek, S of Caspers Pk, entrance, 10-8-17. © Ron Vanderhoff.

Believed to have been a native of the central or eastern United States, but it has naturalized in almost all of temperate North America.

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