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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Gomphrena serrata
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 224. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Arrasa con todo
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gomphrena decumbens
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gomphrena dispersa
|authority=Standley
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Gomphrena;Gomphrena serrata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gomphrena]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gomphrena serrata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 451
|treatment_page=page 453
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial or annual, not cespitose, 1–10 dm; roots fibrous. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, procumbent, or decumbent, pilose. <b>Leaves</b> sessile or petiolate; petiole to 0.6 cm; blade green, obovate to oblong, 1.5–7.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, apex rounded or obtuse, pilose-sericeous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads white tinged with pink or red, globose to short-cylindric, 9–13 mm diam.; bractlets with denticulate crests along keel. <b>Flowers</b>: tube densely lanate; perianth lobes white, narrowly oblong, 4–5 mm, apex attenuate. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute. <b>Seeds</b> 1.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Lawns, roadsides, sandy open areas, woodlands, hammocks
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Gomphrena serrata
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Gomphrena decumbens;Gomphrena dispersa
|basionyms=
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Lawns, roadsides, sandy open areas, woodlands, hammocks
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Gomphrena
|species=Gomphrena serrata
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