- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Alternanthera bettzickiana
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Amaranthaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Calico plant, Green hedge.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- December – April.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of South America.
- 💡 Status
- Not Evaluated.
Description: An erect or ascending, perennial herb. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic to oblanceolate, often purple-suffused. Flowers small, in axillary, globose or ovoid heads. Fruit indehiscent utricle.
Uses: Common in gardens as an ornamental plant.