| Description | Horsetails (Equisetum) is a primitive vascular plant. Goes by the common names of Horsetails, Scouring Rush, Snake grass and Puzzlegrass. This section will not divide the Horsetails into different species but discusses characteristic that are similar to all. |
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| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Sedge and Rush |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, moist, wet |
| Soil & Site | average, moist, wet, wet lands, swamps |
| Flowers | a nonflowering plant |
| Fruit | have cone like structures that produce spores |
| Leaves | leaves are reduced to scale-like leaves, these form a ring around the stem at a node |
| Stems | upright green, non branching, some species stems have ridges, main organ of photosynthesis for the plant, has rhizomes that run underground, is jointed and hollow, can be pulled apart at the nodes, pulling apart with a popping sound |
| Roots | adventitious roots originate from the rhizome |
| Maintenance | can become an aggressive invasive plant |
| Propagation | division, spores |
| Misc Facts | Equisetum is Latin for horse. |
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