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A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diaspore that, once mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem and rolls due to the force of the wind .
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.
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.
The Tumbleweed Tree is a Christmas decoration made of tumbleweeds in the shape of a Christmas tree. Each year since 1957, the city of Chandler, Arizona , assembles the decoration, using over 1,000 tumbleweeds and 1,200 lights.
For plant common names that include the word "tumbleweed" (and variants), see Tumbleweed (disambiguation) or Category:Plant common names. Pages in category "Tumbleweeds" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Common names of the plant include Jim Hill mustard, tall tumblemustard, [1] tall mustard, tumble mustard, [2] tumbleweed mustard, tall sisymbrium, and tall hedge ...
More general common names include tumbleweed and pigweed. [5] Description. Amaranthus graecizans is an annual herb that grows up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall.
Corispermum is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Common names given to members of the genus involve bugseed, tickseed, and tumbleweed.In general, these are erect annual plants with flat, thin leaves and topped with inflorescences of flowers with long bracts.