Equisetum arvense L., 1753
Common names
- 🇬🇧 Field Horsetail
- 🇫🇷 Prêle des champs, Queue-de-renard
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Monilophytes
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Subclass: Equisetidae
- Order: Equisetales
- Family: Equisetaceae
- Genus: Equisetum
- Subgenus: Equisetum
- Species: Equisetum arvense
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern
Notes
Possible confusion with E. telmateia Ehrh., 1783, whose stems have sheats with more than 15 teeth, while those of E. arvense have sheats with less than 15 teeth.
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- E. arvense subsp. alpestre (Wahlenb.) Arcang., 1882;
- E. arvense subsp. arvense L., 1753: diploid (2n = 216), P.
Hybridizes with:
- E. fluviatile L., 1753 to produce E. × litorale Kühlew. ex Rupr., 1845, P;
- E. palustre L., 1753 to produce E. × rothmaleri C.N.Page, 1973;
- E. sylvaticum L., 1753 to produce E. × lofotense Lubienski, 2010;
- E. telmateia Ehrh., 1783 to produce E. × robertsii Dines, 2002.
Photographs
Sources
Badré, F., & Deschatres, R. (1979). Les Ptéridophytes de la France : liste commentée des espèces (taxinomie, cytologie, écologie et répartition générale). Candollea, 34(2), 379-457. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-880127
Christenhusz, M., Lansdown, R.V., Bento Elias, R., Dyer, R., Ivanenko, Y., Rouhan, G., Rumsey, F., & Väre, H. (2017). Equisetum arvense (Europe assessment) (errata version published in 2019). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/167857/161581375
Dines, T.D, & Bonner, I.R. (2002). A new hybrid horsetail, Equisetum arvense x E. telmateia (E. x robertsii) in Britain. Watsonia, 24, 145-157.
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