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Tumbleweeds
A tumbleweed is a kind of plant habit or structure. Tumbleweed, tumble-weed or tumble weed may also refer to: Films * Tumbleweeds (1925 film), ''Tumbleweeds'' (1925 film), William S. Hart film * Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935 film), ''Tumbling Tumbleweeds'' (1935 film), Gene Autry film * Tumbleweed (1953 film), ''Tumbleweed'' (1953 film), Nathan Juran film * Tumbleweeds (1999 film), ''Tumbleweeds'' (1999 film), Gavin O'Connor film Music * Tumbleweed (band), an Australian band * The Tumbleweeds, also known as "Cole Wilson and His Tumbleweeds", a New Zealand band * Tumbleweeds, a Dutch band featuring Ton Masseurs * Tumbleweed (song), "Tumbleweed" (song), by Sylvia, 1980 * "Tumbleweed", a song by Jinjer from Duél (Jinjer album), ''Duél'' (Jinjer album) (2025) * "Tumbleweed", a song by Keith Urban from ''The Speed of Now Part 1'' (2020) Organizations * Tumbleweed Tex Mex Grill & Margarita Bar, a restaurant chain * Tumbleweed Communications, a former Internet security corporation, acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbleweeds (comic Strip)
''Tumbleweeds'' was an American comic strip that offered a skewed perspective on life on the American frontier. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (June 6, 1926 – March 12, 2019) (who signed the strip "T.K. Ryan") was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. Launched September 6, 1965, the strip was distributed for decades initially by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and later by the King Features Syndicate after its acquisition. After a 42-year run, Ryan retired and, rather than let it become a "zombie strip", brought ''Tumbleweeds'' to a conclusion on December 30, 2007. Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis, who created ''Garfield'', was Ryan's assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, ''Gnorm Gnat''''Tumbleweeds'' at Don Markstein's Toonopedia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbleweeds (1925 Film)
''Tumbleweeds'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart. It depicts the Cherokee Strip land run, land rush of Land Run of 1893, 1893. The film is said to have influenced the Academy Awards, Oscar-winning 1931 Western ''Cimarron (1931 film), Cimarron'', which also depicts the land rush. The 1939 Astor Pictures' re-release of ''Tumbleweeds'' includes an 8-minute introduction by the then 74-year-old Hart as he talks about his career and the "glories of the old west." ''Tumbleweeds'' was Hart's last movie. Plot Set in Caldwell, Kansas on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, the film begins with intertitles describing the end of the reign of cowboys and cattle on the open range that would soon become farmland and homesteads. Cowboys sing of their rambling lifestyle as "tumbleweeds." And one of those tumbleweeds is their foreman Don Carver (William S. Hart), who respects the rattlesnakes and wolves that roam the prairie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbleweeds (1999 Film)
''Tumbleweeds'' is a 1999 American comedy-drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor. O'Connor co-wrote the screenplay with his then-wife Angela Shelton, based on Shelton's childhood memories spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother. It stars Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown and Jay O. Sanders. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where O'Connor won the Filmmaker Trophy award. McTeer won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Brown won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance and the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film. Plot The story revolves around Mary Jo Walker, a single mother whose usual reaction to trouble is to pack her car with her belongings and take her pre-teen daughter Ava in search of greener pastures. The film commences with a strong-willed Mary Jo in an altercation with a man. As this is som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tumbleweeds
The Tumbleweeds, sometimes billed as Cole Wilson And His Tumbleweeds, were a New Zealand country and western group founded in Dunedin in 1949. The band are considered among the major pioneers of New Zealand country music. They were amongst the first to perform and record country music in New Zealand with their cover of Gussie Davis's standard " Maple on the Hill" reportedly selling over 80,000 copies, making it one of New Zealand's most sold singles of all time and equivalent to a double-platinum disc. The band formed in March 1949 after bassist Bill Ditchfield for the group The Hawaiian Serenaders was inspired to start a country music band when he heard one of the stage show dancers, Nola Hewitt, sing a rendition of "Maple on the Hill". Bill was joined by Nola and her sister Myra, who was also a stage show dancer, as well as two other members of his group, Cole Wilson and lap steel guitarist Colin McCrorie. The band played regularly on the Dunedin radio station 4YA, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935 Film)
''Tumbling Tumbleweeds'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Lucile Browne. Written by Ford Beebe, the film is about a cowboy who returns home after a five-year absence to find his father murdered and his boyhood pal accused of the dastardly deed. ''Tumbling Tumbleweeds'' features the songs "Riding Down the Canyon", "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine", and the Bob Nolan classic "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". Plot Gene Autry (Gene Autry) returns to his home after a five-year absence as a singing cowboy with a group of strolling players that includes Smiley (Smiley Burnette) and Eightball (Eugene Jackson), who sell Dr. Parker's Painless Panacea. Gene's father, a cattle baron and one of the original "nesters" in the West, was recently murdered during a conflict with his landlord. While at an abandoned nester's cabin, the group is held up by Harry Brooks (Cornelius Keefe), whom Gene recognizes as his old friend. Wounded and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbleweed
A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diaspore that, once mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem and rolls due to the force of the wind. In most such species, the tumbleweed is in effect the entire plant apart from the root system, but in other plants, a hollow fruit or inflorescence might detach instead. Xerophyte tumbleweed species occur most commonly in steppe and arid ecosystems, where frequent wind and the open environment permit rolling without prohibitive obstruction. Apart from its primary vascular system and roots, the tissues of the tumbleweed structure are dead; their death is functional because it is necessary for the structure to degrade gradually and fall apart so that its seeds or spores can escape during the tumbling, or germinate after the tumbleweed has come to rest in a moist location. In the latter case, many species of tumbleweed open mechanically, releasing their seeds as they swel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranthus Albus
''Amaranthus albus'' is an annual species of flowering plant native to the Americas. Its common names include common tumbleweed, tumble pigweed, tumbleweed, prostrate pigweed, pigweed amaranth, white amaranth and white pigweed. Description ''Amaranthus albus'' is an annual herb growing up to tall, forming many branches. Larger specimens turn into tumbleweeds when they die and dry out. The plant creates small, greenish flowers in clumps in the axils of the leaves. Male and female flowers are mixed together in the same clump. Distribution and habitat It is native to the tropical Americas, but is a widespread introduced species in other places, including Europe, Africa, and Australia. Uses In Cambodia, the leaves of the plant (which is known as ''phti sâ'' in the Khmer language Khmer ( ; , Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: ) is an Austroasiatic language spoken natively by the Khmer people. This language is an official language and national language of Cambodia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selaginella Lepidophylla
''Selaginella lepidophylla'' (syn. ''Lycopodium lepidophyllum''), also known as a resurrection plant, is a species of desert plant in the spikemoss family (Selaginellaceae). It is native to the Chihuahuan Desert of the United States and Mexico. ''S. lepidophylla'' is renowned for its ability to survive almost complete desiccation. Resurrection plants are vascular rooted plants capable of surviving extreme desiccation, then resuming normal metabolic activity upon rehydration. The plant's hydro-responsive movements are governed by stem moisture content, tissue properties and a graded distribution of lignified cells affecting concentric stem stiffness and spiraling. During dry weather in its native habitat, its stems curl into a tight ball, uncurling only when exposed to moisture. The outer stems of the plant bend into circular rings after a relatively short period without water. The inner stems instead curl slowly into spirals in response to desiccation, due to the action of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salsola Tragus
''Salsola tragus'', often known by its synonym is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is known by various Common name, common names such as prickly Russian thistle, windwitch, or common saltwort. It is widely known simply as tumbleweed because, in many regions of the United States, it is the most common and most conspicuous plant species that produces tumbleweeds. Informally, it may be known as "'Kali'' or ''Salsola": the latter being its restored genus, containing 54 other species, into which the obsolete genus ''Kali (plant), Kali'' has been subsumed. For a brief phase during its youth, it may be grazed but afterward becomes too spiny and woody to be edible to most wildlife and livestock (if it is not processed first). Mature specimens are often more than a meter in diameter. As its fruits mature, the Diaspore (botany), diaspore of the plant dies, dries, hardens, and detaches from its root. This detached anatomical part of is colloquially called "tumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psoralea
''Psoralea'' is a genus in the legume family (Fabaceae) with 111 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs native to southern and eastern Africa, ranging from Kenya to South Africa. In South Africa they are commonly referred to as fountainbush (English); fonteinbos, bloukeur, or penwortel (Afrikaans); and umHlonishwa (Zulu). Etymology The name ‘''Psoralea’'' is derived from the Greek term ‘''Psoraleos’'', which means “affected with itch or with leprosy”. Psoralen occurs naturally in the seeds of '' Psoralea corylifolia'', and is used in PUVA (psoralen + UVA) treatment, for several diseases including such as psoriasis. Species 111 species are accepted: * '' Psoralea abbottii'' C.H.Stirt. * '' Psoralea accrescens'' * '' Psoralea aculeata'' L. * '' Psoralea acuminata'' * '' Psoralea affinis'' Eckl. & Zeyh. * '' Psoralea alata'' (Thunb.) T.M.Salter * '' Psoralea angustifolia'' L'Hér. * '' Psoralea aphylla'' L. * '' Psoralea arborea'' Sims * '' Psoralea arborescens'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dysphania Atriplicifolia
''Dysphania atriplicifolia'' (synonym ''Cycloloma atriplicifolium'') is species of flowering plant known by the common names winged pigweed, tumble ringwing, plains tumbleweed, and tumble-weed. page 16 This plant is native to central North America, but it is spreading and has been occasionally reported in far-flung areas from California to Maine to the Canadian prairie. It is considered an introduced species outside of central North America. This is a bushy annual herb forming a rounded pale green clump which may exceed in height. It is very intricately branched, with toothed leaves occurring near the base. The spreading stems bear widely spaced flowers are small immature fruits fringed with a nearly transparent membranous wing. In autumn, the plant forms a tumbleweed. The fruit is a utricle about 2 millimeters long containing a single seed. Uses The seeds are eaten as a food staple by Native American peoples including the Zuni and Hopi The Hopi are Native Americans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centaurea Stoebe
''Centaurea stoebe'', the spotted knapweed or panicled knapweed, is a species of ''Centaurea'' native to eastern Europe, although it has spread to North America, where it is considered an invasive species. It forms a tumbleweed, helping to increase the species' reach, and the seeds are also enabled by a feathery pappus. Description ''Centaurea stoebe'' is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant, and it usually has a stout taproot and pubescent stems when young. It has pale and deeply-lobed leaves covered in fine short hairs. First-year plants produce a basal rosette, alternate, up to long, deeply divided into lobes. It produces a stem in its second year of growth. Stem leaves are progressively less lobed, getting smaller toward the top. The stem is erect or ascending, slender, hairy and branching, and can grow up to tall. Protruding from black-tipped sepals, the flower blooms from July to September. The flower head is wide, with vibrant pink to lavender (or more rarely white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
