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Field Horsetail, Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) Duke Forest Blackwood Division, Orange Co., NC 29 Apr 2009 Statewide in NC (although rare in and toward the coast) in various moist, often disturbed habitats. |
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Field Horsetail, Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) Duke Forest Blackwood Division, Orange Co., NC 29 Apr 2009 Whorled branches |
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Field Horsetail, Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) Duke Forest Blackwood Division, Orange Co., NC 29 Apr 2009 Sheaths (fused mycrophyll leaves) with brown tipped teeth |
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Field Horsetail, Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) Duke Forest Blackwood Division, Orange Co., NC 29 Apr 2009 Strobilus with sporangia |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
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