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Salsola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (561 words) |
 | Salsola (Saltwort*, Tumbleweed or Russian thistle) is a genus of herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and small trees in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Africa, Asia, and Europe. |
| In several annual species, those known popularly as "tumbleweeds", the plants break away from their roots in the autumn, and are driven by the wind as a light, rolling mass, scattering seed far and wide. |
| Amusingly, tumbleweed is such a common symbol in Westerns, where it is used to indicate an abandoned area, that it is generally associated with the American Old West, and western films, despite its Russian origin. |
| Tumbleweeds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (136 words) |
| Tumbleweeds is a comic strip drawn by Tom K. Ryan (who signs the strip "T. Ryan"), set in the "Old West". |
| Begun in 1965, it was widely syndicated during the 1970s. |
| Tumbleweeds is also the title of two motion pictures: |
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