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amaranth family

Family Amaranthaceae, which contains about 60 genera and more than 800 species of herbaceous plants and a few shrubs, trees, and vines, native to tropical America and Africa. Globe amaranth () and cockscomb () are cultivated as ornamentals. The large genus contains the ornamentals love-lies-bleeding () and Joseph's-coat (), as well as many weedy plants known as pigweed, especially . Some species are tumbleweeds, and some are potential high-protein grain crops.

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