“The rapidity with which the Russian thistle has spread, both in infesting new territory and in thoroughly covering that already infested, far exceeds that of any weed known in America,” Dewey ...

This is especially effective on weeds with short dormancy periods, such as kochia, goat’s beard, hare’s ear mustard, Indian mustard, Russian thistle, cow cockle, green foxtail, downy brome, wild ...

This practice can be especially successful at reducing the weed seedbank of winter annual and early emerging species, such as stinkweed, knotweed, Russian pigweed, Russian thistle, lambs quarters, ...

but these annoying yet charming balls of prickly weeds actually came to the USA from Eurasia. Tumbleweeds, also known as the Russian thistle (Salsola tragus), originated in Eurasia and were ...