The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Salsola collina
Also called Tumbleweed
Slender Russian thistle is a bushy annual weed that becomes woody as it matures and breaks off to tumble in the wind, spreading its seeds. It is a sun-loving, drought-tolerant plant that thrives in dry, open ground.
Salsola collina, commonly known as the slender Russian thistle, tumbleweed, or Russian thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Salsola.
Salsola collina is native from Eastern Europe to Eastern Asia. It was introduced to the United States from Russia.
Saltworts · Australian Tumbleweed · Russian thistle · Russian Thistle · Maltese salt tree · Barbwire Russian thistle · Salsola strobilifera · Prickly Russian thistle · Saltwort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salsola collina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
