Question: This low growing wild plant almost looks like it should be growing under water, but it's coming up, thriving, and …
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Question
This low growing wild plant almost looks like it should be growing under water, but it's coming up, thriving, and spreading in packed stone dust. It starts small as one little "branch" 3-4" long growing very close to the ground, and grows into lush bunches 12" tall. Do you know what it is? Thanks
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This image is Equisetum sylvaticum (wood horsetail), a free-sporing plant related to the true ferns. It is the only member of its genus (horsetails and scouring-rushes) that has branched branches (the other species, if producing branches at all, have simple--unbranched--branches).
