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Equisetum arvense in a riverine forest in southern Germany I love these plants ever since learning in an Introductory Biology course that they are one of the most primitive of all green plants - harking back to an age when giant dragonflies inhabited the earth - before mammals and even dinosaurs! Equisetum arvense,Fall,Field horsetail,Geotagged,Germany Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Equisetum arvense in a riverine forest in southern Germany

I love these plants ever since learning in an Introductory Biology course that they are one of the most primitive of all green plants - harking back to an age when giant dragonflies inhabited the earth - before mammals and even dinosaurs!

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The Field horsetail

"Equisetum arvense" is a herbaceous perennial plant, native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. It has separate sterile non-reproductive and fertile spore-bearing stems, growing from a perennial underground rhizomatous stem system.

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Similar species: Horsetails
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By Barry

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Uploaded Nov 1, 2017. Captured Oct 13, 2017 14:43 in Hungersberg 2, 88074 Meckenbeuren, Germany.
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  • Canon PowerShot SX30 IS
  • f/3.5
  • 1/79s
  • ISO160
  • 6.971mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.