Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
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]
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.
Kali – Russian thistle, Tartar thistle, or tumbleweed, plants formerly classified in the genus Salsola (family Chenopodiaceae) Argemone mexicana – flowering thistle, purple prickly poppy (family Papaveraceae) Eryngium – certain species include the word thistle, such as beethistle, E. articulatum (family Apiaceae)
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.
The dust that sits in your home can turn into tumbleweed-like dust bunnies and wreak havoc on allergies and indoor air quality. Ahead, we spoke to cleaning experts about the most common dusting ...
Dysphania atriplicifolia (synonym Cycloloma atriplicifolium) is species of flowering plant known by the common names winged pigweed, tumble ringwing, plains tumbleweed, [2] and tumble-weed. [3] This plant is native to central North America, but it is spreading and has been occasionally reported in far-flung areas from California to Maine to the ...