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Horsetail or Snake Grass or Scouring Rush
Equisetum
35.1784, -80.8486
Field Notes
Description:
This plant in on soil on edge of a man-made pond - it is contained. It spreads and can be invasive in the wild; reproduces by spores not seeds - a primitive plant
Habitat:
school pond
Notes:
Equisetum is a "living fossil" as it is the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 4, 2015
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