PREVIOUS

NEXT

UWSP

Common Plants

of Wisconsin

HOME

SEEDLESS PLANTS

liverwort

hair-cap moss

peat moss

clubmoss

spikemoss

horsetail

bracken fern

sensitive fern

royal fern

cinnamon fern

interrupted fern

rock-cap fern

maidenhair fern

GYMNOSPERMS

WOODY DICOTS

DICOT HERBS a

DICOT HERBS b

DICOT HERBS c

MONOCOTS

horsetail, scouring rush (Equisetum spp.; HORSETAIL FAMILY [Equisetaceae]) Mostly small to medium-sized erect plants with rigid, hollow, jointed, fluted, branched or unbranched stems.  Small, triangular, colorless leaves form a collar at each node.  Spores develop in a conelike strobilus, but plants spread mainly by underground rhizomes.  In a few species, the strobilus is borne on a separate fertile stalk that has no chlorophyll.  More than 10 Wisconsin species range from aquatic to woodland to road-edge habitats.  [006]

Copyright information:
The images contained in the COMMON PLANTS of WISCONSIN web site may be freely used for non-profit, educational purposes, as long as complete citation information is included.

Use in any copyrighted document or any web site is prohibited without specific permission of the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Department of Biology.  Please contact Webmaster for more information.