Trouble with Tribulus

Yep, that time of year again. The days are shorter, the weather is cooling, the goatheads are goatheading.

Or at least that’s what I thought until I saw this…

The official Idaho Noxious Weed Guide. It lists all of the misplaced plants in and around Idaho. When a plant grows somewhere you don’t want it, it is called a weed. If a plant is particularly good at growing where you don’t want it I guess it is a noxious weed.

Anyhow, I turned to the goathead page (aka puncture vine, Tribulus terrestris, monkeyfist, bikers bane, the weed of doom, effing goathead) and was pleasantly surprised to see that there are not goatheads in Ada County. Note the infestation map.

That is most excellent news. Can you imagine if we had that stuff here, boy that would suck. Imagine if it grew along the side of popular bike routes like Hill Rd, or the Greenbelt – what a pain in the ass that would be.

Well I guess we narrowly averted that disaster. There are apparently goatheads in Canyon County though – sucks for them, Elmore County too, Valley County – bummer, significantly below average. I will try to stay here in good old Ada.

So if you think you got a flat recently from a goathead you are most decidedly mistaken. You must have been out of Ada County. Or ran over some glass. Or imagined it all-together.