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Equisetum variegatum
Also called Variegated horsetail, Northern scouring-rush, Variegated Scouring Rush, Mottled Scouring Rush
Equisetum variegatum, commonly known as variegated horsetail or variegated scouring rush, is a species of vascular plant in the horsetail family Equisetaceae. Like all horsetails, it is a type of fern. It is native to the northern hemisphere where it has a circumpolar distribution.
It has a circumpolar distribution in the northern hemisphere, where it is occurs in northern Europe, Asia and North America including Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Its range extends south as far as the Pyrenees and Apennines in Europe, Mongolia and Japan in Asia and Connecticut, Wisconsin and Oregon in North America.
Field Horsetail · Andean Horsetail · Braun's Horsetail · Equisetum diffusum · Water horsetail · Southern Giant Horsetail · Rough Horsetail · Smooth horsetail · Equisetum ×moorei · Mexican Giant Horsetail · Marsh horsetail · Scouringrush Horsetail
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Equisetum variegatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
