alternanthera

See also: Alternanthera

English

alternanthera (plural alternantheras)

Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Alternanthera in the amaranth family.
Synonyms: joyweed, Joseph's coat
- 2009 August 25, Lynden B Miller, Parks Plants and People: Beautifying The Urban Landscape, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 100:
  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.