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  • COMMON NAME: spiny pigweed
  • ARABIC: عرف الديك
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Amaranthus spinosus L
  • SYNONYMS: Amaranthus caracasanus Kunth
  • FAMILY: AMARANTHACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Rare in the UAE. (Masafi, Abu-Dhabi).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:10711-2
used as animal food.

Annual herb, erect, glabrous, up to 90 cm high. Stem stout, simple or branched. Leaf axils with paired spines; leaves long-petioled (up to 6 cm or longer), ovate or oblong to lanceolate-oblong, obtuse. Flower clusters in a naked terminal and axillary spikes, 7-12 cm long. Flowers 0.1-0.3 cm long, green, upper flowers of the spikes male, lower female. Bracts and bracteoles more or less equaling the perianth lobes. Perianth 5 segments, 0.1-0.2 cm long, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate. Stamens 5. Utricle ovoid, wrinkled nearly equaling the perianth lobes, rarely indehiscent. Seed small, compressed, black, shining. 

Flowering from February to June.
Gardens, roadsides and waste places.
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