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Russian thistle
noun
A prickly shrublike annual, (often erroneously referred to as , a synonym for Kali turgida), which is the best-known kind of tumbleweed.
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Russian thistle (Salsola kali) is an important forb diet item.
And, of course, there's fall, with pollen from ragweed, sage and Russian thistle the common culprits.
Tumbleweed, the great symbol of the American West, clogging roadways and piling up in the most bizarre ways, is actually Russian thistle.
Here, people are referring to the Russian thistle, a fast-growing plant that more than a century ago hitchhiked into the country and found the American prairie an unusually accommodating place.
Three tumbleweed species; Russian thistle (Salsola kali), Jim Hill mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) and summer cypress (Kochia scoparia) blow in, and out of, two plastic-lined radioactive wastewater ponds, constructed in 1993 on the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in southeast Idaho.
Everyone knows about ragweed, but other weeds, such as cocklebur, pigweed, and Russian thistle, can release pollens that trigger allergies, too.
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The score is just about the most famous ballet music ever written, but most of the dances here (apart from the high-kicking thistles in the Russian Dance) have no footwork and no steps.
yellow star thistle, St. Barnaby's thistle, Russian napweed.
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BROWN--Aurelia "Thistle" Clifton.
This upstart thistle.
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