Equisetum arvense

Tags: Fern.

Equisetum arvense the field horsetail or common horsetail is a herbaceous perennial plant native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. It has separate sterile non-reproductive and fertile spore-bearing stems growing from a perennial underground rhizomatous stem system.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Equisetopsida

division

Pteridophyte

family

Equisetaceae

genus

Equisetum

kingdom

Plant

order

Equisetales

synonym

*Equisetum arvense subsp. ramulosum (Rupr.) W.F. Rapp), *Allosites arvense (Brogn.), *Equisetum arvense fo. arcticum (Rupr.) M. Broun), *Equisetum arvense fo. boreale (Bong.) Klinge), *Equisetum arvense fo. campestre (Schultz) Klinge), *Equisetum arvense var. arcticum (Rupr.), *Equisetum arvense var. campestre (Schultz) Rupr.), *Equisetum arvense var. ramulosum (Rupr.), *Equisetum boreale (Bong.), *Equisetum calderi (B. Boivin), *Equisetum campestre (Schultz), *Equisetum saxicola (Suksd.), *Equisetum arvense fo. ramulosum (Rupr.) Klinge ex Scoggan), *Equisetum arvense subsp. boreale (Bong.) Á. Löve)