Wood Horsetail.
Taken at Strathclyde Park on 16th April 2020 using Panasonic Lumix LX5 in macro mode.
Fact File


Wood Horsetail.
Species:
Order:
Family:
Habit: 		Equisetum sylvaticum.
Equisetales.
Equisetaceae.
Perennial.
Habitat:
Height:
Feature:
 Wet or swampy forest, open woodlands, and meadow areas.
30 - 60 cms.
This plant reproduces by spores, but its primary means of reproduction is done vegetatively by rhizomes. These rhizome systems are deep and extensive, as well as extremely long-lived. These creeping rhizomes occasionally produce tubers, and often outweigh the above-ground growth by 100 to 1.