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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Amaranthaceae	Achyranthes	Chaff-flower
Amaranthaceae	Achyranthes aspera var. aspera	Blunt-leaved Achyranthes	Disturbed upland areas, waste areas around wool-combing mills.	Native of Asia.
Amaranthaceae	Achyranthes aspera var. pubescens	Devil's-horsewhip	Disturbed uplands, hammocks.	Native of w. Africa. Reported for MD and s. FL (FNA, Kartesz 1999), the MD report dropped in Kartesz (2010).
Amaranthaceae	Achyranthes bidentata var. japonica	Japanese Chaff-flower	Bottomland forests, disturbed areas.	Native of e. Asia. Escaped in KY and WV (Mingo and Wayne counties) (Medley et al. 1985), n. AL (Limestone County) (Barger et al. 2019), nc. GA, s. OH, s. IN, w., c. and e. TN, and s. IL, and now acting as a serious invasive species (Evans & Taylor 2011). Also recently discovered in Fairfax County, VA along the Potomac River (N. DeBarros, pers. comm., 2022).
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera	Chaff-flower, Joyweed
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera bettzickiana	Calicoplant, Parrotleaf	Disturbed areas, spread from horticultural use.	Native of South America.
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera brasiliana	Brazilian Joyweed	Wet, disturbed areas.	Native of Central and South America.
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera caracasana		Disturbed areas.	Native of South America. Reported for Coastal Plain of SC, and in s. Coastal Plain of GA (Jones & Coile 1988) and for NC (FNA, K) and MD (K).
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera flavescens	Yellow Joyweed	Hammocks, sandbars, coastal berms, shell mounds, coastal thickets. Often abundant and somewhat sprawling in understories of buttonwood hammocks and other shaded coastal areas sparsely to moderately saline-influenced.	Widespread in the FL peninsula, north to Brevard County; West Indies, s. Mexico (CAM, ROO, YUC), South America, the native distribution unclear, but seemingly native. The Clay County, FL record appears to be in error (A. Franck, pers. comm.; 2024).
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera maritima	Seaside Joyweed, Beach Alternanthera	Coastal strands.	S. FL; West Indies; South America.
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera paronychioides		Disturbed areas, wet or dry flats, beaches.	Native of tropical America.
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera philoxeroides	Alligator-weed	Floating in mats on the surface of the waters of blackwater rivers, sloughs, ditches, ponds, and in very moist soil of ditches and shores.	Native of tropical America. This plant is a serious weed of natural areas. Reported for s. IN by Bill Thomas (pers.comm., 2022).
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera pungens		Field edges, parking lots, other disturbed areas. perhaps only a waif at least northward.	Native of tropical America. Known from scattered locations in AL, FL, LA, NY, and TX (Clemants in FNA 2003b); native of tropical America. Reported for Sumter and Tift counties, GA (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009).
Amaranthaceae	Alternanthera sessilis	Sessile Joyweed	Disturbed wet muck.	Native of the Tropics. First reported for SC by Nelson & Kelly (1997). Apparently now known in the Southeast from SC, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX (Brown & Marcus 1998) and GA (Jones & Coile 1988).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthaceae	Amaranth Family
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus	Amaranth, Pigweed
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus acanthochiton	Greenstripe		Valley of the Rio Grande, and reported for Jefferson County TX (se. TX), westwards to s. UT and AZ, and n. Mexico.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus albus	Tumbleweed Amaranth	Disturbed areas, agricultural fields.	Central North America, the native distribution difficult to determine.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus arenicola	Sandhill Amaranth	Sandhills, dunes, other sandy areas; eastwards adventive in disturbed areas.	Native from IA, SD, and WY south to TX, NM, and Mexico, adventive in a broader range (the boundaries of native and adventive hypothetical).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus australis	Southern Water-hemp, Careless	Tidal marshes, freshwater wetlands (swamps, strands, sloughs, marshes), ditches, disturbed areas.	E. NC, TN, LA, and TX south into West Indies, Gulf Coast of Mexico (CAM, ROO, TAB, TAM, VER), and n. South America; perhaps adventive in some of our range, from an original distribution on the Gulf Coast, in FL, and southward into the New World tropics.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus blitoides	Matweed Amaranth, Prostrate Pigweed	Disturbed areas, roadsides.	Sc. United States and Mexico.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus blitum ssp. emarginatus	Purple Amaranth, Livid Amaranth	Disturbed habitats.	Native of the tropics. First reported from SC by Hill & Horn (1997). Reported for greenhouses and outdoor areas for c. KY (Adanick & Medley 2020).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus blitum ssp. pseudogracilis	Purple Amaranth, Livid Amaranth	Disturbed habitats.	Native of the tropics.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus cannabinus	Salt-marsh Water-hemp	Salt, brackish, and freshwater tidal marshes, especially along the banks of tidal guts.	ME south to ne. FL (Duval County).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus caudatus	Love-Lies-Bleeding, Tasselflower, Purple Amaranth	Disturbed areas, cultivated as an ornamental.	Native of Andean South America. Cultivated and rarely escaped or persistent, as in TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), and scattered in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus crassipes var. crassipes	Spreading Amaranth	Shores and wet areas.	Probably introduced from tropical America.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus crispus	Crisp-leaved Amaranth	Disturbed areas, especially around seaports.	Native of South America. Reported for VA by Massey (1961), but no documentation is known.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus cruentus	Red Amaranth, Blood Amaranth, Purple Amaranth	Disturbed areas, old gardens.	Native of Central America.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus deflexus	Large-fruit Amaranth, Argentine Amaranth	Disturbed areas, ballast.	Native of South America. Reported for VA by Virginia Botanical Associates (2019).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus dubius	Spleen Amaranth, Southern Pigweed, Callaloo	Disturbed areas.	Native of tropical America.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus floridanus	Florida Amaranth	Dunes, beaches.	Native, endemic to FL peninsula, north to Duval and Alachua counties (Wunderlin & Hansen 2004).
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus graecizans var. silvestris	Mediterranean Amaranth	On ballast, apparently only a waif.	Native of Mediterranean Europe.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus greggii	Gregg’s Amaranth, Josiah Amaranth	Dunes, beaches.	Native from se. LA west through TX to se. Mexico.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus hybridus ssp. hybridus	Smooth Amaranth, Slim Amaranth, Green Amaranth, Smooth Pigweed	Disturbed areas.	Original distribution obscure because of its very weedy nature, but apparently native in eastern North America.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus hypochondriacus	Prince's-feather	Disturbed areas.	Native of tropical America. The type locality is "Virginia", where apparently early introduced.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus muricatus	Muricate Amaranth	Disturbed areas, on ballast, probably only a waif.	Native of s. South America.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus palmeri	Careless-weed, Palmer’s Amaranth	Arroyos, riverbanks, and disturbed areas; eastwards adventive in fields and disturbed areas.	Native of c. and sw. North America and Mexico.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus polygonoides	Tropical Amaranth, Smartweed Amaranth	Disturbed areas.	Native of tropical America. C. TX s. NM, and s. FL (uncertainly native) south into the Neotropics.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus powellii ssp. powellii	Green Amaranth, Powell's Amaranth	Disturbed areas.	Native of w. and sc. North America, south to Mexico. Widespread and common in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993); many earlier reports of A. retroflexus may actually pertain to this species.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus pumilus	Seabeach Amaranth, Dwarf Amaranth	Sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats, rarely on sound-side beaches.	Se. MA south to c. SC; presently known to be extant only from NC, n. SC, e. MD, DE (McAvoy 2002), se. NY (Long Island), VA, and NJ. Since 2000, populations have crashed rangewide.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus retroflexus	Rough Pigweed, Redroot, Redroot Amaranth	Disturbed areas.	Native of c. and e. North America, now nearly worldwide in distribution and the original native range difficult or impossible to determine.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus scleropoides	Bonebract Amaranth	Seasonally wet, sandy soils.	OK south through TX to CHH, COA, and TAM.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus spinosus	Spiny Amaranth, Quelite Espinoso	Fields, gardens, roadsides, barnyards, pastures.	Native of tropical America.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus tamaulipensis	Tamaulipan Amaranth	Disturbed areas.	S. TX (Cameron County), TAM, SLP, and TAB
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus thunbergii	Thunberg's Amaranth	Collected from near wool-combing mills in SC; probably not naturalized.	Native of Africa.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus torreyi
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus tricolor	Summer Poinsettia, Joseph’s Coat, Chinese Spinach, Malabar Spinach	Cultivated as an ornamental and salad green, rarely persistent or escaped.	Native of tropical Asia.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus tuberculatus	Inland Water-hemp	Swamps, bottomlands, fields, disturbed areas.	The exact boundaries of its native distribution are now obscure, perhaps approximately OH west to ND south to MS and TX.
Amaranthaceae	Amaranthus viridis	Slender Amaranth, Tropical Green Amaranth	Disturbed areas.	Native of South America.
Amaranthaceae	Blutaparon	Silverhead
Amaranthaceae	Blutaparon vermiculare	Silverhead, Sampire, Saltweed	Beaches, tidal flats, dune swales.	FL peninsula and ne. FL (St. Johns County), Gulf coast of FL Panhandle, s. LA, and TX, south to Mexico (CAM, CHP, GRO, ROO, SLP, SIN, TAM, YUC) and Central America; West Indies.
Amaranthaceae	Celosia	Cockscomb, Woolflower
Amaranthaceae	Celosia argentea	Cockscomb, Celosia, Cresta de Gallo	Commonly cultivated, rarely escaped or persistent in disturbed areas, such as along creeks.	Native of s. Asia.
Amaranthaceae	Celosia nitida	Slender Celosia, West Indian Cockscomb, Albahaca	Hammocks, thickets, brush, and forests in sandy soils.	Peninsular FL; se. TX and s. TX south through Mexico, Central America, and South America; West Indies.
Amaranthaceae	Celosia palmeri	Palmer's Cockscomb	Shrublands on stony slopes.	S. TX, CHH, COA, NLE, SLP, ZAC.
Amaranthaceae	Celosia trigyna	Woolflower	Disturbed areas.	Native of tropical Africa.
Amaranthaceae	Digera
Amaranthaceae	Digera muricata		A waif in ballast ground.	Native of the Paleotropics.
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia	Cottonweed, Snake-cotton
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia drummondii	Drummond's Snake-cotton	Sand plains, oak mottes, roadsides.	E. and s. TX.
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia floridana var. campestris	Plains Cottonweed, Plins Snakecotton	Open sandy habitats, sandy oak savannas, sandy fields, other disturbed areas (roadsides, railroads).	OH, MN, and CO south to w. KY, AR, and TX, and Mexico (CHH, COA, VER).
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia floridana var. floridana	Florida Cottonweed, Common Cottonweed	Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy fields, sandy roadsides.	S. NC south to n. FL, and west to LA, north in the interior to w. TN; disjunct (probably introduced) in DE, e. MD, s. NJ, and NY (Long Island).
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia floridana var. pallescens	Florida Cottonweed	Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy fields, sandy roadsides.	S. GA to s. peninsular FL.
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia gracilis	Slender Cottonweed	Dry soils; eastwards adventive in vacant lots, sandy fields, railroad banks.	Native of mw. United States and n. Mexico (CHH, COA, NLE, SON, TAM), the eastern limit of its native distribution uncertain.
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia latifolia		Grasslands, forest edges, dunes.	E. TX to s. TX.
Amaranthaceae	Froelichia texana	Texas Snake-cotton	Oak mottes, sandy prairies.	TX south to TAM and NLE.
Amaranthaceae	Gomphrena	Globe-amaranth
Amaranthaceae	Gomphrena globosa	Globe-amaranth	Disturbed areas.	Native of s. Asia. Introduced and known from scattered locations in s. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993). Also reported for VA (Kartesz 1999) and MD (Reed1961b).
Amaranthaceae	Gomphrena nealleyi	Nealley’s Globe-amaranth	Grasslands; eastwards (SC) in a disturbed area along a railroad track.	Native of se. and s. TX south into ne. Mexico. Discovered apparently established along a railroad track in Charleston, SC (J. Gramling, pers. comm., June 2016).
Amaranthaceae	Gomphrena serrata	Arrasa con todo	Sandy woodlands and disturbed areas.	Native of tropical America. Reported for chrome ore piles in Newport News, VA (Reed 1961, Virginia Botanical Associates 2019), where presumably only a waif.
Amaranthaceae	Gossypianthus	Cottonflower
Amaranthaceae	Gossypianthus lanuginosus var. lanuginosus	Woolly Cotton-flower	Dry soils, disturbed sandy or rocky areas.	Sc. KS, n. TX, and NM south to se. and s. TX and Mexico.
Amaranthaceae	Gossypianthus lanuginosus var. tenuiflorus	Lanceleaf Cottonflower	Sandy or rocky open areas, disturbed areas.	Nw. AR and n. OK south to s. TX.
Amaranthaceae	Guilleminea
Amaranthaceae	Guilleminea densa var. aggregata	Dense Cotton-flower	Sandy disturbed area.	Native of sw. United States. First reported for SC by Nelson & Kelly (1997)
Amaranthaceae	Hermbstaedtia	Guineaflower
Amaranthaceae	Hermbstaedtia odorata	Guineaflower	Waif on ore piles.	Native of s. Africa.
Amaranthaceae	Iresine	Bloodleaf
Amaranthaceae	Iresine diffusa	Judas-bush	Hammocks, disturbed areas.	Ne. FL, Panhandle FL, south to s. FL. Reported for NC by Small (1933), so far as is known in error.
Amaranthaceae	Iresine palmeri	Palmer's Bloodleaf	Palm woodlands.	S. TX (Cameron County) and ne. Mexico (HGO, NLE, SLP, TAM, VER).
Amaranthaceae	Iresine rhizomatosa	Bloodleaf	Moist interdune thickets, hammocks, edges of maritime forests, moist thickets inland, floodplain forests, riverbanks and river scour, bluff forests of the Coastal Plain.	MD south to FL, west to se. TX; also inland from KY and TN west and south to KS and n. TX.
Amaranthaceae	Tidestromia	Tidestromia
Amaranthaceae	Tidestromia lanuginosa	Woolly Honeysweet	Dunes, bare ground, roadsides, and other open, disturbed areas.	KS, CO, and NV south to sw. LA, se. and s. TX, and Mexico; adventive elsewhere.