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Russian Thistle
Russian thistle is a common name that can refer to: * '' Echinops exaltatus'', also known as ''Russian globe thistle'', is a globe thistle native to Eurasia and an invasive species in Eastern Canada and Northern United States. * ''Salsola tragus'', formerly called ''Kali tragus'' or ''Salsola kali'' subsp. ''tragus'': a common weed of disturbed habitats, commonly known as ''prickly Russian thistle''. In the United States, it is the most common and most conspicuous species colloquially called "tumbleweed". It is an invasive species that is widespread throughout North America and many other continents. * ''Salsola soda'', also known as ''oppositeleaf Russian thistle''. See also * Tumbleweed, a diaspore formed by several ''Salsola ''Salsola'' is a genus of the subfamily Salsoloideae in the family Amaranthaceae. The genus ''sensu stricto'' is distributed in Australia, central and southwestern Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. Common names of various members of this ...< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin. A common name is sometimes frequently used, but that is not always the case. In chemistry, IUPAC defines a common name as one that, although it unambiguously defines a chemical, does not follow the current systematic naming convention, such as acetone, systematically 2-propanone, while a vernacular name describes one used in a lab, trade or industry that does not unambiguously describe a single chemical, such as copper sulfate, which may refer to either copper(I) sulfate or copper(II) sulfate. Sometimes common names are created by authorities on one particular subject, in an attempt to make it possible for members of the general public (including s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echinops Exaltatus
''Echinops exaltatus'', the Russian globe thistle or tall globethistle, is European species of globe thistle in the family Asteraceae. It is native to central and eastern Europe from Germany and Italy east into Russia. The species has escaped cultivation and become established in the wild in scattered locations in eastern Canada and the northern United States. Description ''Echinops exaltatus'' is the largest of all globe thistles, a branching perennial herb up to 150 cm (60 inches or 5 feet) tall. One plant can produces several flower heads, each with a very nearly spherical array of white or pale blue disc florets but no ray florets Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger fa .... References exaltatus Flora of Europe Plants described in 1811 {{Cynareae-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Globe Thistle
''Echinops'' is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are distributed from central Asia, Mongolia and north-eastern China to the Mediterranean basin, temperate regions of Eurasia, reaching to Indian subcontinent and tropical Africa. Globe thistle is the host plant of weevils '' Larinus vulpes'' and '' Larinus onopordi.'' Characteristics Source: Vegetative charactreistic The globe thistle species are perennial herbaceous plants. They form rhizomes as perennial organs. The independently upright stems are angular. The alternately arranged leaves are one to two-pinnately divided and white, woolly and tomentose on the underside. Generative features The capitulas are single-flowered, have a hermaphrodite tubular flower and are surrounded by a multi-rowed sheath. Numerous capitulas form spherical inflorescences of the second ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurasia
Eurasia ( , ) is a continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. According to some geographers, Physical geography, physiographically, Eurasia is a single supercontinent. The concept of Europe and Asia as distinct continents dates back to classical antiquity, antiquity, but their borders have historically been subject to change. For example, the ancient Greeks originally included Africa in Asia but classified Europe as separate land. Eurasia is connected to Africa at the Suez Canal, and the two are sometimes combined to describe the largest contiguous landmass on Earth, Afro-Eurasia. History Eurasia has been the host of many ancient civilizations, including those based in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and China. In the Axial Age (mid-first millennium BCE), a continuous belt of civilizations stretched through the Eurasian Subtropics, subtropical zone from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This belt became the mainstream of world history for two millennia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salsola Tragus
''Salsola tragus'', often known by its synonym is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is known by various Common name, common names such as prickly Russian thistle, windwitch, or common saltwort. It is widely known simply as tumbleweed because, in many regions of the United States, it is the most common and most conspicuous plant species that produces tumbleweeds. Informally, it may be known as "'Kali'' or ''Salsola": the latter being its restored genus, containing 54 other species, into which the obsolete genus ''Kali (plant), Kali'' has been subsumed. For a brief phase during its youth, it may be grazed but afterward becomes too spiny and woody to be edible to most wildlife and livestock (if it is not processed first). Mature specimens are often more than a meter in diameter. As its fruits mature, the Diaspore (botany), diaspore of the plant dies, dries, hardens, and detaches from its root. This detached anatomical part of is colloquially called "tumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali (plant)
''Kali'' was a genus of plants in the subfamily Salsoloideae in the family Amaranthaceae, that has now been subsumed into the genus ''Salsola''. Common names of various members of this genus include buckbush, rolypoly, tumbleweed for its wind-blown seed dispersal habit, and Tartar thistle and Russian thistle for its origins. Taxonomy The type species of the genus was ''Kali turgidum'' (now ''Salsola kali''). The genus consisted of ca. 23 species, including: * ''Kali australe'' (R.Br.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = ''Salsola kali'' R.Br. * ''Kali basalticum'' C.Brullo, Brullo, Gaskin, Giusso, Hrusa & Salmeri = ''Salsola basaltica'' (C.Brullo, Brullo, Gaskin, Giusso, Hrusa & Salmeri) C.Brullo & Brullo * ''Kali collinum'' (Pall.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = '' Salsola collina'' Pall. * ''Kali dodecanesicum'' C.Brullo, Brullo, Giusso, Ilardi = '' Salsola squarrosa'' Steven ex Moq. * ''Kali gobicola'' (Iljin) Brullo & Hrusa (2015) = ''Salsola'' × ''gobicola'' Iljin * ''Kali griffithii'' (Bung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salsola Kali
''Salsola kali'' is the restored botanical name for a species of flowering plants in the amaranth family that has been treated as ''Kali turgidum''. It is native to Macaronesia, and from the Atlantic coasts of Europe to the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean (although it has been introduced elsewhere). It is an annual plant which grows primarily in the temperate biome, in salty sandy coastal soils.Sabrina Rilke: ''Revision der Sektion Salsola s.l. der Gattung Salsola (Chenopodiaceae)''. In: ''Bibliotheca Botanica.'' Vol. 149, 1999,(Summary online) It is commonly known as prickly saltwort or prickly glasswort. In dry inland places it is replaced by '' Salsola tragus'' (syn. ''Kali tragus'' or ''Salsola kali'' subsp. ''tragus''), which is less tolerant to salty soils, and has spread more widely from Eurasia to other continents. ''Salsola kali'' is less widespread as an introduced species in America. Taxonomy The species was first described in 1753 as ''Salsola kali'' by Carl Linn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbleweed
A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diaspore that, once mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem and rolls due to the force of the wind. In most such species, the tumbleweed is in effect the entire plant apart from the root system, but in other plants, a hollow fruit or inflorescence might detach instead. Xerophyte tumbleweed species occur most commonly in steppe and arid ecosystems, where frequent wind and the open environment permit rolling without prohibitive obstruction. Apart from its primary vascular system and roots, the tissues of the tumbleweed structure are dead; their death is functional because it is necessary for the structure to degrade gradually and fall apart so that its seeds or spores can escape during the tumbling, or germinate after the tumbleweed has come to rest in a moist location. In the latter case, many species of tumbleweed open mechanically, releasing their seeds as they swel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. The region includes Middle America (Americas), Middle America (comprising the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico) and Northern America. North America covers an area of about , representing approximately 16.5% of Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. , North America's population was estimated as over 592 million people in list of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salsola Soda
''Soda inermis'', the opposite-leaved saltwort, oppositeleaf Russian thistle, or barilla plant, is a small (to 0.7 m tall), annual, succulent shrub that is native to the Mediterranean Basin.Plants of the World Online ''Soda inermis'' Fourr. (retrieved 5 March 2024) It is a (a salt-tolerant plant) that typically grows in coastal regions and can be irrigated with salt water. The plant was previously classified as ''Salsola soda'', now regarded as a . The plant has great historical importance as a source of |
