Calflora Taxon Report
Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. ssp. braunii (J. Milde) Hauke
Giant horse tail, Giant horsetail
Equisetum telmateia ssp. braunii is a fern that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.

Alternate Names and Sources:
Equisetum telmateia var. brauniiOTHER
Equisetum brauniiPOWO
Equisetum telmateia var. brauniiPLANTS
Siskiyou Del Norte Modoc Humboldt Shasta Lassen Trinity Plumas Tehama Butte Mendocino Glenn Sierra Yuba Lake Nevada Colusa Placer Sutter El Dorado Yolo Alpine Napa Sonoma Sacramento Mono Amador Solano Calaveras Tuolumne San Joaquin Marin Contra Costa Alameda Santa Cruz Mariposa Madera San Francisco San Mateo Merced Fresno Stanislaus Santa Clara Inyo San Benito Tulare Kings Monterey San Bernardino San Luis Obispo Kern Santa Barbara Ventura Los Angeles Riverside Orange San Diego Imperial
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Accepted by: JEPS
Jepson eFlora section:
fern
USDA PLANTS group:
Horsetail

Do not eat any part of this plant.
Occurs usually in wetlands, occasionally in non wetlands
streambanks
Yellow Pine Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, wetland-riparian, many plant communities

[Wikipedia] Range, Subspecies Information: Equisetum telmateia, the great horsetail or northern giant horsetail, is a species of Equisetum (puzzlegrass) with an unusual distribution, with one subspecies native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, and a second subspecies native to western North America. The North American subspecies is often simply but ambiguously called "giant horsetail", but that name may just as well refer to the Latin American Equisetum giganteum and Equisetum myriochaetum. Equisetum telmateia subsp. braunii[7] (Milde) Hauke (syn. Equisetum braunii Milde). Northern giant horsetail. Western North America, from southeastern Alaska and western British Columbia south to California. Main stem between branch whorls green. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)

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