Amaranth ‘Joseph’s Coat’

Large-leaved amaranth Joseph’s Coat has beautiful foliage in vivid color combinations. Beloved since Elizabethan times in England, when old herbals described it, “every leaf resembles in color the most fair and beautiful feather of a parrot.” A featured plant of Monticello’s floral gardens, this ever-popular plant has beautiful foliage in vivid combinations of yellow, scarlet, and green that develop in summer on the upper leaves of this sturdy, large-leaved edible annual. A heat lover that thrives in the high humidity of full summer, it is lovely paired with grasses and salvias in the border.