Salsola (Saltwort*, Tumbleweed or even Russian thistle) occurs as genus of herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and small trees in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Africa, Asia, and Europe. It usually develop in flat, typically dry and/or somewhat saline soils, with occasionally coinage within saltmarshes. Recent inherited studies (Pyankov et al., 2001) keep around even so shown that a genus equally traditionally circumscribed is paraphyletic, & numbers of coinage are probably to become transferred to more genera later.
* Note that a title Saltwort is as well utilized for the unrelated genus Batis.

A 100-130 metal money in a traditional watch of the genus include the resulting choice:

Within many annual mintage, victims known popularly when "tumbleweeds", a plants break out of their roots in the autumn, and come caused per wind as a light, rolling mass, scattering seed far and wide. A seeds come produced inside such prominent cost that a plant doesn't bother by using hard coatings or even food reserves for the coiled plant embryos.

Salsola as invasive species
Many mintage, however virtually all notably a central Asian S. tragus, come invasive outside their native range. It develop be particularly abundant inside area of North America, where it is employed when noxious weeds by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A genus was foremost reported in the United States around 1877 in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, apparently transported as a stowaway in flax seed imported by Ukrainian farmers. South Dakota proved as well coarse & dry for growing flax, but by 1900, Salsola got colonized when far west when a Pacific Coast. It was too actively introduced per U.S.D.The., under a impression that cattle might be caused to eat it inside protective days when you took droughts. Palatability of the immature shoots is considered to exist as fair. Kine, sheep, and horses will eat it, if nothing better is available. Little rodents and Pronghorn also graze on the young shoots. Tumbleweed thrives wherever land have has disturbed a soil. It may be seen around Death Valley, California and in Colorado at elevations of 8500 feet.

Tumbleweed hwhen naturalized pertinent in which these are regarded by several Our contries humans as indigen, changing a N Our contries Great Plains plant community forever. These are controlled by having mass applications of herbicides. Divertingly, tumbleweed is such the most common symbol inside Westerns, where these are utilized to suggest an abandoned metropolitan area, that these are usually associated sustaining a American Old West, despite its Russian origin.

Salsola as food

A leaves and shoots of many metal money come comestible, especially once young & caring, & a select few come grown when vegetables, often utilized for salads, sushi, or as a garnish. Within Japan, S. komarovii occurs when crop of moderate importance, known locally as okahijiki (literally "land hijiki").

A seeds come besides eatable, although hard to collect within quantity, & come another time ground into flour.