| Scientific Name: | Gomphrena globosa |
| Common Name: | globe amaranth |
| Family Name: | Amaranthaceae |
| Origin: | Central America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Yellow, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, most blades narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 8-13cm long x 1-3cm wide, sparsely pubescent, margin ciliate; spikes compact, rounded, flowers tiny, white-yellow, inside colourful individual tubular bracts ~1cm long x 2-3mm wide, June to frost. | |