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Rough horsetail or scouring rush
Equisetum hyemale
About
Equisetum hyemale, commonly known as rough horsetail or scouring rush, is an evergreen perennial herbaceous pteridophyte in the horsetail family Equisetaceae native to Eurasia and Greenland. It was formerly widely treated in a broader sense including a subspecies in North America, but this is now treated as a separate species, Equisetum praealtum.
- Family
- Equisetaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Equisetum hyemale
- Slug
- equisetum-hyemale
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Equisetaceae
- Genus
- Equisetum
- Species
- hyemale
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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