Tumbleweed or Russian Thistle, is a foreign import. When you see pictures of the Old West, with tumbleweeds blowing, they are definitely fake. Although the date is uncertain, the plant was imported from Russia in about 1870 and spread across the country. One day we were stopped by a 10 foot wall of tumbleweeds that had blown across the road. I haven't seen anyplace where the weed doesn't grow here in the desert.
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