Amaranthus albus

Raus, Thomas, 2022, Taxonomic, nomenclatural and floristic review of Amaranthaceae of Greece and neighbouring countries, Willdenowia 52 (3), pp. 335-357 : 337

2. Amaranthus albus L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10: 1268. 1759. – Lectotype (designated by Raus 1997: 143): Herb. Linn. No. 1117.1 ( LINN).

Remarks — Amaranthus albus is native to S North America, in the U.S.A. (California to Virginia) and NE Mexico; it is introduced as an agricultural weed and ruderal alien in Eurasia, N Africa, South America and Australia ( Bayón 2015: 303; Palmer 2009). In the Mediterranean area, the earliest records are from the 1720s ( Thellung 1914: 286), whereas the first record in Greece was in the 1850s (see Table 1); the species is now naturalized all over Greece ( Strid & Tan 1997: map 265; Arianoutsou & al. 2010) as well as in Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey ( Iamonico 2015a).