About

Equisetum, the horsetails, are remarkable, ancient, rush-like plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds � living fossils with a lineage stretching back over 300 million years. They produce distinctive, jointed, hollow, ribbed stems with reduced, scale-like leaves fused into whorled sheaths at each node. Invaluable for bold, architectural effect in moist or wet settings.

About the genus

Equisetum, the horsetails, are the sole surviving genus of a once-dominant group of plants, reproducing by spores rather than seeds. They produce jointed, hollow, ridged, rush-like stems with whorled, scale-like leaf sheaths at each node. Ancient and architecturally distinctive, they are grown in moist or wet gardens and containers.

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