Great Horsetail
Equisetum telmateia Ehrh.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Equisetaceae
Formerly Equisetum caenosum, Equisetum eburneum, Equisetum macrostachion, Presla eburnea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe to Iran, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.8 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 30–150 cm; Plants For A Future 2–2 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- French
- Grande Prêle
- Dutch
- Reuzenpaardenstaart
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Equisetum telmateia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.