Tumbleweeds are basically standard scene material in all Western movies.
The interesting thing is they were not native to the U.S. but were brought to America by Russian immigrants in the 1890s. They were accidentally mixed in with their wheat seeds.
-— The interesting thing is they were not native to the U.S. but were brought to America by Russian immigrants in the 1890s -—
Cool info. Thanks.
Migrating invasive species.
Yeppir. Russian Thistle. I bought one to put “fairy lights” on a couple of Christmases ago.
While looking for them online, I came across a site that said they were used (or being used) to clean up radioactivity somewhere. I didn’t really fathom how.
They’re vicious little critters, a mass of thorns. Warning should anyone try to use them as a decoration (handle with extreme care & leather gloves), but they’d make a pretty fair deterrent piled up against a fence, better than Pampas Grass.