The plant outlived the dinosaurs, and is quite likely to outlive you, too. So you can imagine that it’s a challenge to find anything to like about horsetail, still less to admire, but here goes.

Field Horsetail is a cosmopolitan fern widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, found in moist sites along roadsides and riverbanks as well as in fields, marshes, pastures, and tundra. Today’s ...

That includes the unfern-like Staghorns, skinny Horsetail and many other seemingly alien plants. Ferns are some of the oldest plants on the planet, dating to the Mesozoic era when dinosaurs roamed ...

Horsetail plants are unusual, with hollow, jointed, ribbed stems that contain silica, ... Some grew over 100 feet high, towering over ferns, club mosses and other early land plants.

Horsetail is a popular fern that has been used as an herbal remedy since the times of the Greek and Roman Empires ... No other plant boasts as high of a concentration of this mineral (1, 5).

Check out equisetum, a plant that hearkens to ancient fern forests some 350 million years ago. Equisetum is a relic of a different time, a different continent, ...

Horsetail tea is used as a diuretic, ... Its tube-like stems and scale-like leaves make it look like a cross between a bamboo plant and a fern. Horsetail remedies are made using the leaves and stems.

Plants, in their fossil forms, ... These trees once grew in vast swamps along with ancient plant groups such as ferns, horsetail ferns and clubmosses.

Found growing in Costa Rica’s marshy wetlands, horsetail (Equisetum spp.) is an ancient plant that has persisted largely unchanged for over 300 million years. This tenacious plant earned its nickname ...