| Equisetum pratense L. | |||
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| Family | Equisetaceae — APG family: Equisetaceae | ||
| Description | Rhizome nearly black, creeping, with scattered stems; spring phase with light- brown stem and few short branches, later developing into whorls of branches; sum- mer phase with grayish-green, thin, striated, very rough stems; sheaths green with scarious-margined teeth; branches numerous, slender, 3-angled; first sheath of branches shorter than corresponding sheath of stem; cone obtuse, long-peduncled, soon withering. | ||
| Ecology | Common in woods of the interior. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.