Article: GARDENING : HORSETAIL HAS PULLED ITS WEIGHT SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES.(L.A. LIFE)

Article: Horsetail
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine;      700+ words ...Horsetail Description Horsetail is a perennial plant that is found in or near watery areas such as marshes, streams, or rivers. Horsetail grows in temperate northern hemisphere areas of Asia, Europe ...

Article: Horsetails
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science;      590 words ... ... scouring rushes. ” Horsetails are perennial plants, and ... underground systems of rhizomes. Horsetails develop specialized structures ... called dimorphic species of horsetails, the strobilus occurs at ... springtime. The woodland horsetail ( Equisetum sylvaticum ) occurs ...

Article: Herb garden: horsetail and house leeks.
Natural Life;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Horsetail (Equisteum arvense and ... There were giant and small horsetails growing in enormous quantities ... flowering plants. Like ferns, horsetail has two generations; in ... season and dried. Although horsetail has been used as a herb ...

Article: Horsetail has hardly changed since the dinosaurs' time
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... geometric linear form. The horsetail is also a rigid contrasting ... plants. You will find horsetails sold at most garden centers ... waterfalls. Combine this horsetail with mosses for a lush effect. Horsetails are far more than an essential ...

Article: HORSETAIL
Young Students Learning Library;      320 words ... ... look like small trees. Most horsetails are less than 3 feet (91 ... of millions of years ago, horsetails in coal-forming swamps grew ... Club Moss; Coal; Fern The horsetail has two other names that are ... names came from using the horsetails to clean metals, especially ...

Article: FIELD HORSETAIL TOUGH TO WEED OUT.(Stars)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  September 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Dear L.H.: This plant is field horsetail, Equisetum arvense. It can be difficult ... top of it or right through it. Field horsetail is perfectly capable of growing right ... source of the problem is the mulch. Horsetail often moves into a garden in imported ...

Article: HORSETAIL HAS LOTS OF STAYING POWER.(Stars)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... mail. Dear J.O.: This weed is field horsetail, Equisetum arvense, not yarrow or pigweed ... because they don't look anything alike. Horsetail is a primitive kind of plant, on the ... which gives them a strange glassy feel. Horsetail rhizomes and tubers typically come into ...