Monilophytes (ferns): Horsetails: Equisetales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Equisetum arvense
FAMILY
Equisetaceae
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Learn more about Equisetum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Equisetum arvense
FAMILY
Equisetaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Equisetum arvense
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Equisetum arvense
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Equisetum arvense
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 002-01-001:
Equisetum arvense FAMILY Equisetaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Equisetum arvense
COMMON NAME:
Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_eqar_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_eqar_005_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_007
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Gill Newberry gn1_e_arvense_field_1
July-August
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Gill Newberry gn1_e_arvense_field_2
July-August
Node sheaths slightly flaring, teeth 6-12, brown-tipped, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Gill Newberry gn1_e_arvense_field_ho
July-August
Sterile stems green, with slender branches in whorls at nodes, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmearvense_nantahala
Month Unknown NC
Nantahala National Forest
Sterile stems profusely branched in whorls at all but basal & apical few nodes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Equisetum arvense
FAMILY
Equisetaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Equisetum arvense
FAMILY
Equisetaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Equisetum arvense
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Equisetum arvense
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Equisetum arvense
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 002-01-001:
Equisetum arvense
FAMILY
Equisetaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Equisetum arvense
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Fern/Fern ally
Annual
Habitat: Moist streambanks, bottomlands, moist disturbed sites, road banks, railroad banks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple - scale-like
in whorls that are fused at the base into a sheath
FRUIT:
Spring
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p250
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p155
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p113
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p340
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