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|accepted_name=Amaranthus californicus
|accepted_authority=(Moquin-Tandon) S. Watson in W. H. Brewer et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California
|place=2: 42. 1880
|year=1880
}}
|common_names=Californian amaranth;California amaranth
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mengea californica
|authority=Moquin-Tandon
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Amaranthus;Amaranthus subg. Albersia;Amaranthus californicus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Amaranthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Amaranthus subg. Albersia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Amaranthus californicus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 413, 428
|treatment_page=page 431
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, whitish or tinged with red, much-branched from base, 0.1–0.5 m, rather fleshy. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1/2 or less as long as blade; blade pale green, veins prominent, obovate, spatulate, or oblanceolate to linear, 0.3–2(–3) × 0.2–1.5 cm, base cuneate, margins entire, plane or slightly undulate, apex obtuse to subacute, with prominent mucro. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary clusters borne from bases to tops of plants. <b>Bracts</b> of pistillate flowers linear, 0.5–1 mm, ± equaling tepals. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tepals 1–3, narrowly lanceolate, unequal, usually with only 1 well-developed tepal, largest 1–1.2 mm, apex acute to acuminate; stigmas 3. <b>Staminate</b> flowers intermixed with pistillate; tepals (2–)3; stamens 3. <b>Utricles</b> subglobose, 1–1.2 mm, smooth or wrinkled (especially in dry plants), dehiscence regularly circumscissile or tardily dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> very dark reddish brown, lenticular, (0.6–)0.7–1 mm diam., shiny.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Seasonally moist flats, shores of water bodies, waste places, other disturbed habitats
|elevation=0-2800 m
|distribution=Alta.;Sask.;Calif.;Idaho;Kans.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Amaranthus californicus
|author=
|authority=(Moquin-Tandon) S. Watson in W. H. Brewer et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mengea californica
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Seasonally moist flats, shores of water bodies, waste places, other disturbed habitats
|elevation=0-2800 m
|distribution=Alta.;Sask.;Calif.;Idaho;Kans.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California
|publication year=1880
|special status=
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|genus=Amaranthus
|subgenus=Amaranthus subg. Albersia
|species=Amaranthus californicus
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