Appearance
After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded thimble shaped spikes 15–35 millimetres long and 12 millimetres wide. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind. Native from eastern North America, where it is found growing in dry or open woods.
Naming
Common names include tall anemone, thimble-weed and tumble-weed. Note that several other plant species are known as "thimbleweed".Although this plant sometimes is called a "tumbleweed", it lacks the characteristic tumbleweed habit. The fruit resembles a tumbleweed in that it is wind-dispersed and tumbles, an unusual mechanism of seed dispersal.
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