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Equisetum sylvaticum ~ woodland horsetail

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Characteristics:
  • FACW
  • Michigan C Value: 5
  • only horsetail with reddish brown sheaths
  • main stem sheaths 5 0 mm long
  • teeth coherent in usually 3 5 broad lobes, reddish brown, 3 5 mm long
  • distinguished from other Horsetails by the whorls of slender, recurved branches
  • compound branching; often twelve or more branches in a whorl; only horsetail in which the branches regularly re branch
  • secondary whorls
  • plant resembles a tiny pine tree
  • native
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