Equisetum scirpoides Michx.
subg. Hippochaete
- Common Name: Dwarf Scouring Rush
- Family: Equisetaceae Rich. ex DC
- Country of Origin: circumpolar - northern US states from Washington to Maine
- Habitat: Low wet places in woods, moist shaded hillsides, peat bogs
- Description: Aerial stems persisting more than a year, unbranched, tortuous, 2.5--28 cm; lines of stomates single; ridges 6. Sheaths green proximally, black distally, elliptic in face view, 1--2.5 × 0.75--1.5 mm; teeth 3, dark with white margins, not articulate to sheath. Cone apex pointed; spores green, spheric. 2 n =216.
Cones maturing in summer, or cones overwintering and shedding spores in spring. Wet woods, peat bogs, tundra; 0--1000 m; Greenland; St. Pierre and Miquelon; Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld., N.W.T., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon; Alaska, Idaho, Ill., Iowa, Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont., N.H., N.Y., S.Dak., Vt., Wash., Wis.; n Eurasia.
- Uses: early usage for cleaning pots due to its coarse, silicaceous stems
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199800072
- Source: Tom Lemieux - UC Boulder
- Accession Date: 05-13-1998
- Bench: 2316 - Equisetum
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 09-10-2024
Classification:
- Division: Ferns
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- SubClass: Equisetopsidae
- Order: Equisetales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Equisetaceae
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References (internal):
References (external):
Flora of North America
data regenerated on Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:54:01 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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