Tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple, seeds often used as cereal
English: prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys
Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Cleome
English: desert plume, prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata
Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers, southeastern Asia and Australia, naturalized in North America
English: prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale