TUMBLE WEEDS ARE ACTUALLY JUST RUSSIAN THISTLE. https://youtu.be/BsMOgUfHLx4
F.Y.I Sometime in 1873 or 1874 contaminated flax seed with Russian thistle from Russia had been sown, quite accidentally, on a farm near the town of Scotland, South Dakota. It was in October 1880 that the Department of Agriculture in Washington first received word of a strange plant that had begun appearing in the newly tilled farmlands of South Dakota. Included with the report was a sample that had been found near the town of Yankton on the Missouri River. The information was filed away and forgotten until, a little more than a decade later, more specimens began arriving in the mail. One came from Aberdeen, 200 miles northwest of the earlier sighting, and another from all the way up in North Dakota. The march was already becoming relentless. In the early 1890s a legislator proposed that a fence be built around the state to stem the incursion. It was too late. By this time the weed had already found its way to Canada.
This F.Y.I. is from Sir Richard...
F.Y.I Sometime in 1873 or 1874 contaminated flax seed with Russian thistle from Russia had been sown, quite accidentally, on a farm near the town of Scotland, South Dakota. It was in October 1880 that the Department of Agriculture in Washington first received word of a strange plant that had begun appearing in the newly tilled farmlands of South Dakota. Included with the report was a sample that had been found near the town of Yankton on the Missouri River. The information was filed away and forgotten until, a little more than a decade later, more specimens began arriving in the mail. One came from Aberdeen, 200 miles northwest of the earlier sighting, and another from all the way up in North Dakota. The march was already becoming relentless. In the early 1890s a legislator proposed that a fence be built around the state to stem the incursion. It was too late. By this time the weed had already found its way to Canada.
This F.Y.I. is from Sir Richard...
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