Tumbleweed covers the whole of the USA

[John Gray]

... or perhaps just a few states.
Hope you can see this BBC News video.

PS How do you get rid of the stuff? Burn it?

[BobH]

Here's my favorite exposition on the subject.

That fellow holding a guitar in the lower right of the opening photo is Leonard Slye, aka Roy Rogers.

Yes, John, tumbleweed is a phenomenon of a few Western states. The stuff is prickly enough to scratch paint on cars. I doubt it is burned because it is so lightweight that the updraft from heat would sent it airborne perhaps lighting wildfires (Texas has over a million acres of those at the moment). I suspect that the best way to get rid of it is to shred it a la shredding brush, but I don't know. We don't have it here in central Texas.

[ChrisGreaves]

We don't have it here in central Texas.

In the Western Australia wheat belt we have "wild turnip" which is hollow-stemmed, and is a tad more tree-like than the rough spherical outline of tumbleweed. It does tumble, though, and lodges against fencing in sheep paddocks.
Cheers, Chris

[GeoffW]

I think of something else when I think of tumblweeds.

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(This was a long running strip titled Tumbleweeds).