Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Russian Thistle
(Salsola kali)
Regional Noxious Weed
rounded, bushy, much branched annual growing to 1.2 metres in height;
stem usually red or purple striped; flowers inconspicuous, green with 2
spiny-tipped stiff bracts; leaves tipped by a sharp point
can produce over 200,000 seeds per plant
nicknamed "tumbleweed" when mature plants blow on the wind
