Amaranthus californicus (Moq.) S.Watson

Prostrate, radially spreading delicate annuals, the branches to as much as 5 dm. long, often tinged with anthocyanins. Leaves glabrous, bullate, entire, often white-margined, ovate to obovate and spatulate, apically emarginate to rounded and mucronate, basally attenuate, 3-25 mm. long, 2-12 mm. broad, the petioles 3-25 mm. long. Flowers in axillary, often leafy, few-flowered clusters, with every node often bearing an inflorescence, these ultimately shorter than the petioles. Flowers monoecious; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, apically aristate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long; sepals 3 and quite unequal, or 1-2 in the pistillate flowers, linear to lanceolate, acute to obtuse, 0.4-1.0 mm. long; sepals of the staminate flowers 3, subequal; stamens 2, discrete, ca. 1 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, the stigmata 3, ca. as long as the ovary at anthesis. Fruit a utricle, circurnscissile about the middle, rugose, 1-1.5 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad; seeds cochleate-orbiculate, dark reddish-brown, lustrous, minutely pebbled, 0.8-1.1 mm. broad.

Can be grown by seedlings.