Prostrate Pigweed

(Amaranthus blitoides S. Wats.)

Amaranthaceae (Pigweed Family)

▲ seedling

▲ young plant

▲ mature plant (Kansas)

▲ white leaf margin on mature plant leaves

▲ mature plant (North Dakota)

▲ ▼ stem, leaves of mature plants

Prostrate Pigweed:  (pp.30-31, Weeds of the Great Plains; pp. 92-93, Weeds of the Northeast)

o       warm-season annual weed with low-growing, spreading growth habit

o       grows 3-30” tall, but with much spreading, mat forming branching

o       leaves dark green, oval shaped

o       inflorescence small and in leaf axils

o       found in cultivated fields, disturbed soils, non-cropland