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Scientific Name: | Equisetum spp. |
Common Name: | horsetail |
Family Name: | Equisetaceae |
Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, North America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Fine |
Landscape Uses: | Floristry |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
Soil or Media: | |
Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Leathery, Glabrous, Linear, Other, Entire |
Flowers: | Brown |
Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Brown, Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
Key ID Features: | |
An erect spore bearing vascular plant with whorls of narrow jointed branches at nodes; leaves reduced to crown-like whorl at nodes; strobili formed on tips or on separate fertile shoots connected by rhizomes. |