alternanthera

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English

alternanthera leaves and flowers (Alternanthera brasiliana)

Etymology

Borrowed from taxonomic name Alternanthera.

Noun

alternanthera (plural alternantheras)

  1. Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Alternanthera in the amaranth family.
    Synonyms: joyweed, Joseph's coat
    • 2009 August 25, Lynden B Miller, Parks Plants and People: Beautifying The Urban Landscape, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 100:
      Various cultivars of purple-leaved Heuchera (coral bells), crimson-leaved annuals such as Solonostemon 'Red Carpet' (coleus), Alternanthera dentata 'Rubiginosa' (alternanthera), and the splendid shrublike annual Euphorbia cotinifolia (red spurge)—these dark reds help carry the eye around a planting bed or along the front of a border.

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