Tumbleweed, wind witch and Russian cactus are among the many common names for the Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) – though it isn't a thistle or a cactus at all and is instead part of the Amaranth ...

They may be romantic symbols of our national love affair with the Wild West, but tumbleweeds are also invasive weeds called Russian thistle, and many modern-day Westerners fear they’re taking over.

You think it must be native,” said Pitcairn. “But its common name is Russian thistle.” Genetic tests have shown that California’s most common tumbleweed, known as Russian thistle ...

Russian thistle is a dead menace here on the wind-swept desert of south-central Washington. Each winter, the deep taproot on the plant decays, and the spiny brown skeleton aboveground breaks off ...

It is pretty much the skeleton of a Russian thistle, so named because immigrants from Russia and eastern Europe brought it to America in the seeds for wheat and other crops. Part of its scientific ...

The first step to controlling Kochia and Russian Thistle is to keep current plants from producing seed that is added to the seed repository in soils. Limit disturbances such as tractor ...

Tumbleweeds are a group, not a single species. The most familiar and probably the most common in the West is Russian thistle, Salsola tragus, the first introduced. But currently seven species of ...

Just 15 years later, the tumbleweed (also called the Russian thistle) had rolled its way to both Canada and California. Since then, stories abound of "tumbleweeds driving ranchers out of their ...

But that was to be expected. Salsola tragus, as it’s properly called, or Russian thistle, has become ubiquitous in the West. A few months later, after purchasing the property, we found more ...

They're invasive." They went on to explain that tumbleweed species such as Russian thistle and kochia were brought to the New World by colonizers. Unlike native plants, which have long and strong ...