反枝苋别名野苋菜、苋菜、西风谷,为常见杂草,常生长于农田、果园、路旁和荒地等地方。反枝苋为一年生草本植物,茎直立,粗壮,单一或分枝,淡绿色,有时具紫色条纹,稍具钝棱,密生短柔毛。叶片菱状卵形或椭圆状卵形,顶端锐尖或尖凹,基部楔形,全缘或波状缘,两面及边缘有柔毛,下面毛较密;圆锥花序顶生及腋生,直立,由多数穗状花序形成,顶生 Amaranthus amaranth, Amaranth, Westerly Valley, common weeds, often grow in farmland, orchards, roadsides and wasteland and other places. Amaranthus retroflexus is an annual herb, stem erect, stout, single or branched, pale green, sometimes with purple stripes, a little blunt edge, dense pubescence. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, apically acute or pointed, base cuneate, entire or undulate, both surfaces and edges pilose, underlying hairs dense; panicle terminal and axillary, erect, Spikes form, top students