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tumbleweeds in a yard in California
January 10, 2014

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Skeletons of Russian thistle, better known as tumbleweed, pile up in a yard in Lancaster, California.

See more pictures from the January 2014 feature story “The Weed That Won the West.”


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Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic

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