Globe amaranth is a tropical annual native to Central America from Guatemala to Panama. It's a charming, easy-to-grow annual flower that's ideal for mixing in garden beds and borders or adding to container gardens. It's a mounding plant that produces a plethora of small, globe-shaped blooms in saturated shades of purple, pink, red, and white. These flowers have a papery feel and are excellent for drying -- in fact, sometimes they dry right on the plant, making globe amaranth a must-have if you like to grow flowers for bouquets or dried-flower crafts. It attracts butterflies, too! Taller varieties of globe amaranth grow 18 to 24 inches tall and work well in the middle of the flower border. Dwarf forms are much more compact growing only 8 to 10 inches high so they are perfect for the bedding or container use.