Beginner Gardening: is this Amaranth/Pigweed?, 2 by HeatherY

HeatherY wrote:
Thanks Farmerdill and Number 1!

I have heard about amaranth as a supposed supergrain and as the food of the Aztecs and likely other south western North American people. Mom uses this grain in her bread sometimes. I tried to cook it like pasta once- it does not absorb water it did not seem to soften much.
Palmeri is it? I will have to look that up.
I see it everywhere I look in untended spaces this year- parking lot edges and tree pits.
Grist magazine ( an online magazine about food, water, resources, and the policy and politics
concerning them) had an article about how it was all over the place recently. Perhaps it is new to the North East and Mid Atlantic.

Check out these plants my neighbors are clearly growing! I think they are they same family.
at least six feet hight!

cheers Heather Y