Tall Waterhemp

(Amaranthus tuberculatus)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from well-developed taproot

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, simple, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, glabrous, long-petioled

Reproduction: Dioecious plants, terminal spikes, simple to highly branched

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}