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Rough Horsetail

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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

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Invasive or Introduced Species 1

Living or Extinct

Yes 2

Scientific Name

Equisetum hyemale 2

Conservation Status

Least Concern 4

Comparison

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 3

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Source Equisetum hyemale (Wikidata)

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Sources

1. Equisetum hyemale (Wikipedia)

article text (relationship to people), EntityId 352250
It has been introduced into Tasmania.
Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to
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.
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.

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2. 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)

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3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Plantae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 45

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 45

"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Plants","language":"EN"},{"name":"Flora","language":"EN"}],"cites_listings":[]

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4. Rough Horsetail (Wikipedia)

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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