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Prostrate Gomphrena, Prostrate Globe Amaranth, |
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| Vernacular name | Bachelor's button | |
| Scientific name | Gomphrena serrata, Gomphrena celosioides or decumbens | |
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| Description | ||
| Plant | Prostrate Globe Amaranth is a perennial or annual herb, 10-100 cm long, with fibrous roots. Stems prostrate or bending. Green, obovate to oblong, | |
| Leaves | Stalkless leaves are 1.5-7.5 ? 0.5-2.5 cm, apex rounded or obtuse. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Inflorescences are white flower-heads tinged with pink or red, spherical to short-cylindric, 1-1.3 cm across. Bracts have toothed crests. Flowers | |
| Fruit/ seed | Seeds 1.2 mm, flowering year-round. Found wild in lawns, roadsides, sandy open areas. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Wateland, Play ground | |
| Flowering and fruiting | May - September | |
| Associated with | Wateland flora | |
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