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It is widely known simply as tumbleweed because, in many regions of the United States, it is the most common and most conspicuous plant species that produces tumbleweeds. Informally, it may be known as "' Kali or Salsola ": the latter being its restored genus , containing 54 other species, into which the obsolete genus Kali has been subsumed.
The tumbleweed diaspore disperses seeds, but the tumbleweed strategy is not limited to the seed plants; some species of spore-bearing cryptogams—such as Selaginella—form tumbleweeds, and some fungi that resemble puffballs dry out, break free of their attachments and are similarly tumbled by the wind, dispersing spores as they go. [4] [5]
Boophone disticha is a bulbous tropical and subtropical flowering plant, endemic to Africa.Commonly called the century plant [4] or tumbleweed, [3] Boophone disticha was first collected in 1781 from South Africa by Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg and described by Carl Linnaeus as Amaryllis disticha. [2]
Also known as tumbleweed, slender Russian thistle, or Russian thistle, Salsola Collina is a round, bush-like annual forb that grows from 1 to 3.5 feet (30 to 107 cm) high. While soft when young, as they mature the plants become woody. They are called Tumbleweeds due to their habit of breaking off when mature and tumbling when the wind blows.
This category includes articles about plants that produce a tumbleweed. For plant common names that include the word "tumbleweed" (and variants), see Tumbleweed (disambiguation) or Category:Plant common names.
Selaginella lepidophylla (syn. Lycopodium lepidophyllum), also known as a resurrection plant, [2] is a species of desert plant in the spikemoss family (Selaginellaceae). It is native to the Chihuahuan Desert of the United States and Mexico. S. lepidophylla is renowned for its ability to survive almost complete desiccation.
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...
Common names of the plant include Jim Hill mustard, tall tumblemustard, [1] tall mustard, tumble mustard, [2] tumbleweed mustard, tall sisymbrium, and tall hedge mustard. [ 3 ] Description