Equisetum pratense

Equisetum pratense Ehrh.

Meadow Horsetail

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Meadow horsetails have thin light green fragile-looking branches and don’t exceed about 24" (60 cm) in height.

Identification: See Equisetum for a comparison chart.

From Thomé, Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm, Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz., 1885

Online References:

Equisetum pratense on BorealForest.org

Equisetum pratense on www.delta-intkey.com

Equisetum pratense at the Central Yukon Species Inventory Project

Equisetum pratense on Plants for a Future, a resource and information centre for edible and otherwise useful plants

Equisetum pratense at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Equisetum pratense on Flora of Iceland

Equisetum pratense on SEINet—the Southwest Environmental Information Network

Equisetum on Discover Life

References:

Cobb, Boughton, Farnsworth, Elizabeth & Lowe, Cheryl, Peterson Field Guides: A Field Guide to Ferns and Their Related Families of Northwestern and Central North America, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005, p. 350

9/29/2013 · Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME
≈ 8 × 6" (20 × 14 cm) ID is uncertain

5/9/2012 · Nashua River Rail Trail, Groton, MA
≈ 12 × 8" (31 × 20 cm) ID is uncertain

Equisetum pratense description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 12 Oct 2018.

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4/30/2010 · Nashua River Rail Trail, Ayer, MA
≈ 7 × 11" (18 × 27 cm) ID is uncertain

5/21/2013 · Beaver Brook Assn Conservation Lands, Rte. 130, Hollis, NH
≈ 12 × 8" (31 × 21 cm)

8/2/2009 · Gordon & Kathy’s, Prospect, ME
≈ 10 × 10" (25 × 26 cm) ID is uncertain

About 8 x 5" · 9/4/2010 · Old Rail Trail near Wilkins Farm, Pepperell, MA ID is uncertain

8/30/2010 · Old RR bed near Wilkins Farm, Pepperell, MA
≈ 9 × 12" (23 × 31 cm) ID is uncertain

9/29/2013 · Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME
≈ 6 × 8" (14 × 20 cm) ID is uncertain

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