Rough Horsetail (Equisetum hyemale), also known as scouring rush, is an evergreen perennial horsetail native to Iceland, Greenland, and central and northern Eurasia, including Kamchatka and Japan. It grows vertical, jointed, hollow stems 30 to 100 centimeters tall with 10 to 30 silica impregnated ridges that feel rough to the touch, from which its common name derives. It forms clonal colonies in consistently moist habitats such as riverbanks, lake shores, ditches and marshes, and its dried stems have traditionally been used in Japan as a polishing material. It was formerly treated as including a North American subspecies now recognized as the separate species Equisetum praealtum.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to PeopleInvasive or Introduced Species 2 Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Equisetum hyemale (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Equisetum hyemale (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Albania, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Australia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Austria, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bangladesh, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belarus, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Brazil, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bulgaria, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Finland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Greece, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Hungary, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Iceland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Ireland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Kazakhstan, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Manchuria, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mongolia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Myanmar, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Netherlands, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Poland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Romania, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: South Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Switzerland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Ukraine, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Uzbekistan, found in there.
Sources
1. Equisetum hyemale (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q263881 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Statements section, habitat (P2974): Terrestrial
Wikidata habitat statement (P2974) resolves to a terrestrial habitat type.
- Child Taxon Of: Horsetail, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q28114 (Horsetail)
View the Source 2. Equisetum hyemale (Wikipedia)
article text (relationship to people), EntityId 352250
It has been introduced into Tasmania.
In Biome: Wetlands, article text (habitat biome), EntityId 352250, target B16453
Other habitats include moist forest and woodland openings, lake and pond shores, ditches, marshes and swamps.
View the Source3. Rough Horsetail (Wikipedia)
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