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Scientific name:

Equisetum variegatum

Vernacular name:

Horsetail, Variegated


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Variegated Horsetail

Scientific name: Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr

Diagnostic features
Stems to 40(80)cm (often less than 20cm), evergreen, usually rough to touch, simple or branched at base, with 4-10 2-angled ridges
Cones on normal vegetative shoots, bluntly apiculate.

Chromosome number: 2n=216.

Habitat, ecology and distribution
Native; dune slacks, river-banks, lake-shores, wet stony mountain sites; scattered in Ireland and West & North Britain, very rare in Central & South England.

This species is keyed out on Page 10 of the Text Key.

Hybrids
See Equisetum trachyodon(x) A. Braun (= Equisetum hyemale x Equisetum variegatum).

Equisetum variegatum
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