Meadow Horsetail Plant | Slide Mouse
Meadow horsetail can be distinguised from field horsetail equisetum arvense and other horsetails equisetum by its delicate feathery horizontally spreading branches.
Meadow horsetail plant. Horsetail typically grows in stands that cluster together in dense patches. Palustre both of which have spreading to ascending branches not drooping. Shade horsetail can be commonly found in forests with tall trees or very thick foliage that can provide shade and tends to grow closer and thicker around streams ponds and rivers. Since horsetail plant is an aquatic species like watercress it is good to keep an eye out for it when in marshy wetland regions or waterlogged areas near a beach creek river or lake.
Meadow horsetail spreads both by spores and vegetatively from rhizomes and may create large colonies. It may be confused with field horsetail equisetum arvense or marsh horsetail e. It has been used as a winter food by the inupiat eskimos who preserved it in seal oil. Equisetum pratense commonly known as meadow horsetail shade horsetail or shady horsetail is a widespread horsetail equisetophyta fern.