Common Name: Horsetail
Family: Equisetaceae
Distribution/Origin: Northern hemisphere
Leaf/Bud: Narrow creeping stems that root at any node, fertile stems are produced ear;y spring and are not photosynthetic - they bare spores
Flower/Inflorescence:
Fruit/Seed:
Stem/Bark: Sterile stems are 10–90 cm tall and 3–5 mm diameter, with jointed segments around 2–5 cm long with whorls of side shoots at the segment joints; the side shoots have a diameter of about 1 mm. Some stems can have as many as 20 segments, fertile stems are succulent textured, off-white, 10–25 cm tall and 3–5 mm diameter, with 4–8 whorls of brown scale leaves, and an apical brown spore cone 10–40 mm long and 4–9 mm broad
Habit: Upright
Form: Clumping
Culture: Full sun - part shade, grows in dry places without ground cover, rhizomotus, sure baring
Landscape Use: Perennial weed
Notes: Used in biodynamic farming to reduce the amount of excessive moisture in soil in order to lessen fungal growth
**to get rid of horsetail, shade it out with plantings taller than it
**to get rid of horsetail, shade it out with plantings taller than it