It is one of the terms used for tumbleweeds. They are of several different species. Also do you want to be called Russian thistle? , plant or rolling shrub? o tumblehouse, also barrilla, abarrilla, capitana, salicornio, salicor, rodapaja, straw ball or pebble. They are plants that, when dried, form balls and roll with the wind dispersing their seeds. It means that it spreads vegetation over a steppe or flat sandy terrain.
Botanical term for steppe plants that when dried are swept away by the wind thus dispersing their seeds. They also call them running plants or rolling machines, pancracy balls, desert clouds or norias. The most characteristic example I define in the entrance Calamino, salicón, rascavieja, malvecino, salsola kali, ball of the western films when the wind whistles and the tragedy is chewing.