Equisetum sylvaticum L.

EQUISETACEAE

- Horsetail family Equisetophyta (Horsetails)

Taxon Page:

Name: Equisetum sylvaticum L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 1061 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Woodland horsetail

English name: wood horsetail

Italian name: Equiseto selvatico

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. multiramosum (Fernald) Wherry
= Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. pauciramosum Milde

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. multiramosum (Fernald) Wherry
2) Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. pauciramosum Milde

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: -
Division: Equisetophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Subclass: -
Order: Equisetales
Family: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equisetum
Species:

Page counter: 2601 ( AVG: 222.02 / 291.019 )

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Equisetum sylvaticum
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

Equisetum sylvaticum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Equisetum sylvaticum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Quebec, Parc Laurentides., Canada, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Equisetum sylvaticum
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Equisetum sylvaticum
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Equisetum sylvaticum
Credit: Photo by Anja Michelucci

Equisetum sylvaticum
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Equisetum sylvaticum
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Equisetum sylvaticum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Valle del But, destra orografica lungo la mulattiera che da Fielis raggiunge Noiaris., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Equisetum sylvaticum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Equisetum sylvaticum
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Equisetum sylvaticum
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Equisetum sylvaticum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 40.

Equisetum sylvaticum
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Equisetum sylvaticum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, DE, IA, ID, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Equisetum sylvaticum L.
Map for Equisetum sylvaticum L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. multiramosum (Fernald) Wherry [171]
2) Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. pauciramosum Milde [139]
3) Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. [828]
4) Equisetum trachyodon (A. Braun) W.D.J. Koch [111]
5) Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr ssp. alaskanum (A.A. Eaton) Hultén [157]
6) Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr var. jesupii A.A. Eaton [113]
7) Eragrostis acuta Hitchc. [126]
8) Eragrostis bahiensis Schrad. ex Schult. [320]
9) Eragrostis chariis auct. non (Schult.) Hitchc. [204]
10) Eragrostis cyperoides (Thunb.) P. Beauv. [214]

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