Meadow Horsetail | Slide Mouse
Meadow horsetail spreads both by spores and vegetatively from rhizomes and may create large colonies.
Meadow horsetail. Saca3 usda native status. Sabatia campestris sabatia campestris nutt. L48 texas star or prairie rose gentian is a smooth annual plant to 20 in with slender widely spaced branches. Meadow horsetail is common in the northern united states and canada.
Equis horse seta hair alluding to the resemblance of some species to a horses tail species. Equisetaceae horsetail family genus. 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. Meadow horsetail can be distinguised from field horsetail equisetum arvense and other horsetails equisetum by its delicate feathery horizontally spreading branches.
However unlike most ferns horsetail has the ability to spread vegetatively via a. Equisetaceae horsetail family genera. It also occurs in eurasia including china and northern japan. Lady bird johnson wildflower center focused on protecting and preserving north america s native plants through native plant lists and image galleries conservation education natural landscapes seed collection millennium seed bank msb project preserving and restoring native communities spreading awareness on invasive species and gardening to attract wildlife.
In new england it is absent from southeast rare in connecticut and new hampshire and scattered in maine. Equisetum pratense commonly known as meadow horsetail shade horsetail or shady horsetail is a widespread horsetail equisetophyta fern. Palustre both of which have spreading to ascending branches not drooping. Meadow horsetail occurs from northern new england and maritime canada across the great lakes region and central canada to british columbia the yukon and alaska.
Horsetails are primitive non flowering plants that resemble ferns in their sexual reproductive strategy. Flower is five petaled and pink with a yellow center.