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Amaranthus spinosus |
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| Common name |
spiny amaranth; thorny pigweed |
| Family |
amaranthaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Light |
sun |
Warm-season annual with sturdy spines along its stems. Will grow tall (to 5') if allowed. We find it only very occasionally in our garden.
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This is a weed in our garden About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Jerome | Sep 04, 2011 | I have been looking for seeds source for this Spiny Amaranth (Spiny Pigweeds) for quite sometime now. I will appreciate if you could spare me some of the seeds of this wild plant from your backyard. I am willing to pay for them. Thank you for your attention and consideration.
Unfortunately (for you), this is not a common weed in our garden; I don't recall having seen one this year. |
| gypsy | Aug 03, 2013 | Hate this plant! Just showed up in my garden last year and I let it grow because I didn't know what it was. I found out! Tiny painful thorns.
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| kate | Aug 21, 2013 | I too am looking for seeds for A. spinosus because it is high in a nutrient which has been reported as exhibiting a control of blood glucose (via an extract and tested in rats). If anyone has a source for seeds, I would like to add this plant to my wild garden. |
| Ninfa | Apr 18, 2014 | I wanted to buy seeds for this plant. If you can sell some to me I would gladly appreciate it. I love this veggie very much because of its flavor and nutrients too.
I only encountered this weed once in my garden, so I'm afraid I can't help you with seed. |
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