#family_Amaranthaceae__Amaranthaceae__amaranth_family  cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
  supertype:  caryophylloid_dicot_family__caryophylloiddicotfamily  family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
  member of:  order_Caryophyllales
  member:  genus_Amaranthus__Amaranthus  large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs
     member:  amaranth  any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food
     member:  thorny_amaranth__Amaranthus_spinosus  erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes
  member:  genus_Alternanthera__Alternanthera  genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera
     member:  alligator_weed__alligatorweed__alligatorgras__Alternanthera_philoxeroides  prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
  member:  genus_Celosia__Celosia  annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
     member:  red_fox__Celosia_argentea  weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers
  member:  genus_Froelichia__Froelichia  genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed
     member:  cottonweed  any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers
  member:  genus_Gomphrena__Gomphrena  genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia
     member:  globe_amaranth__globeamaranth__bachelor's_button__Gomphrena_globosa  tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
  member:  genus_Iresine__Iresine  genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs
     member:  bloodleaf  any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage
  member:  genus_Telanthera__Telanthera  used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera

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