OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Monilophytes (ferns): Horsetails: Equisetales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Equisetum arvense   FAMILY Equisetaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_eqar_001_lvd

        

image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_eqar_005_lvd

        

image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_007

        

image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

Gill Newberry    gn1_e_arvense_field_1

July-August        

image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

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).

image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

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).

image of Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail, Bottlebrush Horsetail

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)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple - scale-like
in whorls that are fused at the base into a sheath

FRUIT:
Spring

 

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