GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | The ancient Anasazi harvested such native desert vegetation

What makes this sentence overly complex is the lack of context

Removing the fluffy, the following shows up:

theancient Anasazi harvested suchnative desert vegetation as thepurple-flowered bee plant, nowcommonly called wild spinach

It sounds super weird because, as you read, it seems like a randomized extraction from a book; therefore, the logic and the flow that we expect from a sentence are not present.

If there was context before and after the entire sentence, the flow would be clearer
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