While tumbleweeds may be no more than a prop in your favourite Western, they are the primary antagonist in the story of one of the fastest plant invasions in the history of the United States.

Tumbleweed is one of the most iconic symbols of the old American West, made famous in hundreds of movies. But this invasive plant did not actually reach US shores until the latter part of the 19th ...

Native to the Chihuahuan Desert in the United States and Mexico, it looks like a dried-out tumbleweed when dormant. However, once the plant is exposed to moisture, its dry, brown stems unfurl into ...

Though the plant itself is dead, the tumbleweed stage is how it spreads its seeds for the next generation. Each plant carries ...

Whether it’s Phragmites, crabgrass or tumbleweeds, these unwelcome plants are causing major problems across the state of Utah ...

The plant breaks and rolls and reseeds ... At Christmas the citizens of Chandler, Arizona, erect a tumbleweed Christmas tree. In Albuquerque a giant tumbleweed snowman looms menacingly over ...