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Amaranthus hybridus L.

Synonyms

Amaranthus chlorostachys, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus incurvatus, Amaranthus nepalensis, Amaranthus paniculatus, Amaranthus quitensis

Common names

Khaisa, red amaranth, rowaf, samghat reeh, smooth pigweed

My notes

Difficult to distinguish it from A. viridis and A. caudatus.

Extract from Wikipedia article

Amaranthus hybridus, commonly called smooth amaranth, smooth pigweed, red amaranth, or slim amaranth, is a species of annual flowering plant. It is a weedy species found now over much of North America and introduced into Europe and Eurasia.

Large amaranth plant Amaranthus hybridus(?) on Zurara Bin Amir Street in Al Doha Al Jadeeda area. Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2014
Ziyad Bin Eyad, Doha, Qatar

Amaranthus hybridus on Mousa Bin Nusair Street in Al Doha Al Jadeeda area. Doha, Qatar, April 12, 2014
Mousa Bin Nusair Street, Doha, Qatar

Amaranthus hybridus(?) on Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. Qatar, October 9, 2015
خط الوكير، Qatar

Red amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus)(?) on Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, February 2, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Seedlings of red amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus)(?) on the median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 13, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus)(?) on the median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 13, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Amaranthus hybridus grown on the median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 13, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Amaranthus hybridus taken from the median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 13, 2016

Flowers of Amaranthus hybridus taken from the median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 13, 2016

Amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus)(?) on a median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 24, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus)(?) on the median strip of Al Istiqlal Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, May 22, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Amaranthus hybridus, Wikipedia article
• Amaranthus hybridus from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.