Field Horsetail
Scientific Name:Equisetum arvense


NOTES: Distributed throughout temperate and arctic areas of the northern hemisphere, growing in moist soils.

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Field Horsetail
Genus species: Equisetum arvense
Common Name: Field Horsetail
Family Name: Equisetaceae  
Aerial stems erect, hollow, with vertical grooves embedded with silica; leaves scalelike and whorled; sporangia-bearing.
Seed Type: Gymnosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Fern
Identified by:M. Becus