#russian thistle

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Tumbleweeds.

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We always had a lot of tumbleweed around here, but for a long time I didn’t know it flowered before turning into the spiky brown stuff that blows across Western movie sets.

Sometimes I find huge clumps of it but other times it’s just small clusters. I think they’re also called Russian thistle.

[biglisbonnews]

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I need to accept that the universe in which TWWW exists is not the same as ours and that historical accuracy doesn’t matter. All I wanted to do was include one damn tumbleweed, then the research rabbit hole told me “No.” Tumbleweeds were only first reported in the west in 1877 after the Russians brought them over. AND YET:

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Dune Weeds Including, Queen Annes Lace, Clover and Russian Thistle, Lincoln City, Oregon, 2014.