Intro: Erect to ascending annual of disturbed areas. Native of S. America.

Stems: Stems often ridged and reddish, branched, smooth and lacking spines.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, oval to diamond-shaped with rounded to pointed tips, 2-3 in. long, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers clustered along slender, usually branching terminal and upper axillary spikes that are often interrupted; green tinged with red, less than 1/4 in. long and consisting of 3 tiny tepals; male and female flowers separate.

Fruits: Fruit a faintly wrinkled, oval capsule partly enclosed in the persistent tepals.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect to ascending annual of disturbed areas. Native of S. America.

stems: Stems often ridged and reddish, branched, smooth and lacking spines.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, oval to diamond-shaped with rounded to pointed tips, 2-3 in. long, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers clustered along slender, usually branching terminal and upper axillary spikes that are often interrupted; green tinged with red, less than 1/4 in. long and consisting of 3 tiny tepals; male and female flowers separate.

fruits: Fruit a faintly wrinkled, oval capsule partly enclosed in the persistent tepals.

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