Amaranthus torreyi (A. Gray) S. Wats.

Amaranthus torreyi (A. Gray) Benth.; S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:
42. 1880.
Sarratia Berlandieri Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 179. 1859. Not 5. Berlandieri Moq. 1849. Amblogyne Torreyi A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 5: 167, 1861.
Stems stout, erect, whitish, glabrous, striate, simple or branched at the base, branched above; petioles slender, 5-7 mm. long; leaf -blades oval-oblong to oblong, oblanceolate, or oblong-linear, 1.5-8 cm. long, rounded to acutish at the apex, obtuse to attenuate at the base, yellowish-green, glabrous; flowers dioecious, in slender, dense or interrupted, terminal spikes; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, with spine-like tips, usually shorter than the flowers; sepals of the staminate flowers oblong, 2-3 mm. long, scarious, often tinged with pink, obtuse or acute, the midnerve usually excurrent; sepals of the pistillate flowers narrowly spatulate, slightly indurate at the base, 2 mm. long, obtuse, 1 -nerved, the nerve excurrent; stamens 5; style-
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branches 3; utricle subglobose, circumscissile; seed about 1 mm. in diameter, dark reddishbrown.
Type locality: Mountains of the Cibola, a tributary of the Rio Grande, western Texas. Distribution: Dry soil, Iowa to Texas, west to Colorado and New Mexico; Nevada (?)1

Amaranthus torreyi is a species of flowering plant that is sometimes considered to be a synonym of Amaranthus watsonii. Its common name is Torrey's Amaranth. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.