Herbaceous plant of the family of the quenopodiáceas of whose ashes gets soda by their high content of oxalic acid and other mineral salts. It develops in arid and infertile land. Also called it plant broker or Tumbleweed because dries it becomes a ball carrying wind, as it appears in the films of the West when storm and is chewing the tragedy in the air. Other popular names are: rodamundos, salicornio, Barilla, runner desert, ball West, apretaculos, Captain, malvecino, witch, salsola, Tumbleweed and ball in the desert ( salsola tragus and salsola kali ).
