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Name: maggie
Status: student
Grade: N/A
Location: IL
Country: N/A
Date: 8/17/2005
Question:
Do Tumbleweeds root in water?

Do they roll along in the desert and if they roll into water do their roots automatically penetrate the ground and begin getting their nutrients? According to some websites tumbleweeds only root in dry land.

Please verify this for me.

Replies:
The following should be helpful:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7486.html

http://www.killerplants.com/weird-plants/20020627.asp

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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