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water horsetail

Equisetum fluviatile

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) j_bladow, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Russia.

United States	296,873
Canada	7,365
Russia	5,454
Ontario	2,528
Quebec	1,392
Michigan	934
British Columbia	934
New York	765
Nunavut	693
United Kingdom	569

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Wetland-associatedListed by a harvested source as obligate or frequent in wetland habitat.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Horsetail growth formListed by a harvested source as belonging to the horsetail plant group.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Perennial plantListed by a harvested source as having a perennial life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.From its classification

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Ferns · Polypodiopsida
Order	horsetails · Equisetales
Family	horsetail family · Equisetaceae
Genus	horsetails · Equisetum

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Wetland-associated Species of New Hampshire, United States

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
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Practise water horsetail with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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