Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Gomphrena serrata
Gomphrena serrata L.
Arrasa Con Todo
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth Family)
USDA Symbol: GOSEUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), HI (I), PR (N), VI (I)
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Specimen & Label Data
Gomphrena serrata
Prostrate Globe Amaranth, Coastal Globe Amaranth
Amaranthaceae
Location: Vacant lot, SW corner of Carriage Square-Oakwell FarmsLatitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun, nominal moisture; alkaline, alluvial soil.
Description: Procumbent, much branched at base, woolly, perennial. Leaves opposite, oblong, 2+ cm long, entire, acute, rounded or mucronate, narrowing to nearly sessile base. Heads subglobose, whitish.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Sept 3, 1987
Specimen number: 319
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0116
Accession Date: Sept. 28, 1993
Accession Number: 41
Annotations: SCFRB [=G. decumbens]