Amaranthus albus L.

Amaranthus pubescens (Uline & Bray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey
Club 39: 313. 1912.
Amaranthus graecizans pubescens Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 317. 1894.
Amaranthus viscidulus Thellung, in Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mittel-Eur. Fl. 5: 289. 1914. Not A viscidulus Greene, 1898. Stems stout, ascending or prostrate, much branched, 1-3 dm. long, whitish, densely viscid-pub erulent; petioles stout, 2-10 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic to oval or obovate, 7-15 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, the mid vein excurrent as a spinose awn, cuneate at the base, usually puberulent, at least beneath, thick, conspicuously crispate, strongly nerved, the nerves white beneath; flowers monoecious, in small dense axillary clusters longer than the petioles; bracts lanceolate or ovate, twice as long as the flowers, with rigid spinose divaricate tips; sepals 3, those of the staminate flowers scarious, oblong, acute, those of the pistillate flowers oblong to elliptic or linear, obtuse or acutish, thick, 1-nerved, green; stamens 3; style-branches 2 or 3; utricle globose, about equaling the sepals, circumscissile, thick-walled, slightly rugose; seed rotund, 0.8 mm. in diameter, dark reddish-brown or black, lustrous.
Type locality: Silver City, New Mexico.
Distribution: Dry open slopes and plains, Nevada to southern Colorado and New Mexico.