Re: equisetum

[Allan Balliett]

There's a good photo display of hyemale at http://members.eunet.at/m.matus/e_berkley.html

It appears that the pictures that I mentioned earlier that showed hyemale with 'leaves' were actually pictures of arvense. It also appears that hyemale tends to be a much larger plant (over 5 ft at times) while arvense tends to be around a foot tall. Arvense will also range further from swamp, even growing on railroad embankments, as we often see (I assume) it in this area. I don't think I've seen hayemale in this region, but if I went looking for it, I probably should look on stream banks and not around the woods. -Allan