SummaryThe study extending over all sixteen counties of Hungary has shown atrazine resistant biotypes of Amaranthus retroflexus L. to grow not only in and around maize monocultures but also in rotationally grown maize and even along highways and ruderal areas. In the present study made in 1983 resistant A. retroflexus was found in five counties (Bács‐Kiskun, Csongrád, Hajdu‐Bihar, Nógrád and Szabolcs‐Szatmár) where Hartmann recorded it as absent in 1976. In addition, resistant populations were also found in the counties of Szolnok and Veszprém. The area in which populations of A. retroflexus have developed resistance to atrazine therefore appears to be extending.