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Russian thistle

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Russian thistle: see goosefoot goosefoot, common name for the genus Chenopodium, as well as for the goosefoot family, Chenopodiaceae, a family of widely distributed shrubs and herbs that includes the beet , spinach , and mangel-wurzel.
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; tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as
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They somehow got here in the 1800s, apparently from Eastern Europe, and are sometimes called Russian thistle.
Other weeds that cause allergic reactions are pigweed and sagebrush (tumbleweed), Russian thistle, plantain, mugwort, dock sorrel, cocklebur and lamb's quarters.
In California, residents only have to look to the hills and vacant city lots for a list of culprits: Russian thistle, or tumbleweed; coastal sage; mug woort; lamb's quarters; lenscale; pig weed; western and false ragweed; English plantain and redroot.
 
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