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§1 Plant

Equisetum palustre L.

vernacular marsh horsetail — species · Equisetaceae


USDA
EQPA
GBIF
2687932
Rank
species
marsh horsetail (Equisetum palustre)
Platephotograph · hpr61CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Horsetail
Family
Equisetaceae Michx. ex DC.
Genus
Equisetum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 86 counties across 12 states/territories
Legend Native · 86 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 86 counties across 12 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 18 N
Idaho view state ↗ 3 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 5 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 16 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 16 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Vermont view state ↗ 6 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 12 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/EQPA ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2687932 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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