Show Cultivated Weed Need The low-growing low leafy plant from the Far East is merely a cultivated sister of the taller and less leafy common pigweed red redroot redroot redroot root or careless weed which grows on farms in barnyards and andal al along ng roadsides in almost e every ery part of the United States It is also related related re re- to the brilliantly colored cockscomb cockscomb cockscomb cocks cocks- comb of the flower garden Indians of the southwestern United States have boiled and eaten the leaves of these native plants for tor years They have gathered the small black shiny seeds and ground them into flour for breads and porridges port por por- t ridges dies |