- Common Name(s):
- Alligator-weed, Chaff flower
- Scientific Name:
- Alternanthera philoxeroides
- Family:
- Amaranthaceae
- Amaranth Family
- Flower:
- Tiny white flowers with stiff white bracts. Grow in clusters at stem tips or leaf axils
- Leaves:
- Thick smooth lanceolate leaves. Opposite along stems.
- Plant:
- 1-2'. It roots at nodes and can form large colonies.