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red pigweed

Oxybasis rubra

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,366, February 1,009, March 1,581, April 2,487, May 3,586, June 3,910, July 4,184, August 3,598, September 2,642, October 1,972, November 1,077, December 842.
United States28,426
Alaska28,253
Russia1,035
United Kingdom247
England229
Canada199
Moscow129
Germany110
Ukraine101
Sverdlovsk Oblast79

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Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Orderpinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
FamilyAmaranth family · Amaranthaceae
GenusGoosefoots · Oxybasis

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