Giant leap for a weed: a close-up of the self-propelled spores used in horsetail reproduction Credit: Photo: Alamy What’s the most annoying plant in your garden? Hairy bittercress? Ground elder?

Question: Re: Equisetum hyemale L. Canuela, Horsetail, Scouring rush, Scouringrush horsetail. I bought a 1-gal Equisetum hyemale for my seep/pond. In searching the web, I find conflicting planting ...

When we bought our house, one thing that stood out to me while looking over the typical “new subdivision” (horrible soil) yard was that there was a lot of horsetail rush (Equisetum) growing near the ...

Lead researcher Philippe Marmottant describes the strange walk and jump of the microscopic plant spores Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants - tiny spores ...

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So many of us have the wrong impression of ferns, including me, who thought that giant staghorns weren't really ferns but some sort of epiphyte more closely related to bromeliads or tillandsia. Wrong, ...

Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants - tiny spores that walk and jump. The researchers used high speed cameras to find out how horsetail (Equisetum) spores ...