Photos and Characteristics of Wetland Plant Species > This Category

Equisetum sylvaticum ~ woodland horsetail

All

Category Index

Previous

Next

Characteristics:

• FACW

• Michigan C Value: 5

• only horsetail with reddish brown sheaths

• main stem sheaths 5 10 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