alternanthera

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Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Alternanthera in the amaranth family.

"Various cultivars of purple-leaved Heuchera (coral bells), crimson-leaved annuals such as Solonostemon 'Red Carpet' (coleus), Alternanthera dentata 'Rubiginosa' (alternanthera), and the splendid shrublike annual Euphorbia cotinifolia (red spurge)—these dark reds help carry the eye around a planting bed or along the front of a border."

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Alternanthera.

alternantheras (plural)

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