Plant

False Amaranth

Digera muricata

False Amaranth (Digera muricata) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

False Amaranth (Digera muricata) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Bishangarh, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name: Digera muricata
Family: Amaranthaceae, order Caryophyllales
Group: Plant

A tender herb that springs up after rain.

Spot it Pink flower spikes and oval leaves.
Home Fields after the monsoon.
Food web Birds eat the seeds.
Why it matters Quick monsoon cover that feeds seed-eating birds.

Read more: Digera on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2021 and 2025, in Jaipur and Bishangarh.^[20]

Sources

Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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