| 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. | |