| Name | Amaranthus blitum Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Amaranthus Linnaeus |
| Contains | Amaranthus blitum subsp. emarginata (Salzmann ex Uline & W. L. Bray) Carretero, Muñoz Garmendia & Pedrol Amaranthus blitum var. graecizans (Moench) Moquin-Tandon Amaranthus blitum subsp. oleraceus (Linnaeus) Costea |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:59429-1 |
| Citation | 1753 Sp. Pl. 2: 990 |
| Holdings | 17 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Amaranthus blitum Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (15), 1999 (2) |