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Lechenaultia divaricata. A tumbleweedis a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diasporethat, once mature and dry, detachesfrom its root or stem and rollsdue to the force of the wind. In most such species, the tumbleweed is in effect the entire plant apart from the rootsystem, but in other plants ...
Feb 7, 2022 · Tumbleweeds continue to inspire everything from book and film titles to restaurant, business, and band names—a testament to their mythical force first etched into the American psyche through the ...
May 6, 2018 · Tumbleweeds piled up so high that they reached the second floors and blocked the entrances to about 100 homes, and also covered the baseball diamond at a nearby park, she said. It took 36 city ...
Tumbleweeds can cause traffic accidents when they blindly bounce across highways, and herds of these spiny plants have been known to bury cars and houses. In 2014, two counties in Colorado declared a state of emergency when neighbourhoods became overwhelmed. In the previous year, 45 miles of roads had to be closed after being clogged by ...
The silent star of classic Westerns is a plant on a mission. It starts out green and full of life. It even grows flowers. But to reproduce effectively it nee...
Jun 14, 2024 · witchgrass. tumbleweed, plant that breaks away from its roots and is driven about by the wind as a light rolling mass, scattering seeds as it goes. Examples include pigweed ( Amaranth retroflexus, a widespread weed in the western United States) and other amaranths, tumbling mustard, Russian thistle, the steppe plant Colutea arborea, and the ...
