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Marestail (also mare's tail and mare's-tail) may refer to: ... a fern ally also known as horsetail and pipeweed; Hippuris, a genus of aquatic flowering plants, ...
Equisetum praealtum, [1] the scouringrush horsetail, [2] is a species of Equisetum (horsetail) native to North America and northeastern Asia. [1] It was formerly widely treated as a subspecies or variety of the European and west Asian species Equisetum hyemale (rough horsetail), and still is by some authorities.
Cirrus uncinus is a type of cirrus cloud.The name cirrus uncinus is derived from Latin, meaning "curly hooks".Also known as mares' tails, these clouds are generally sparse in the sky and very thin.
Equisetum arvense, the field horsetail or common horsetail, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the Equisetidae (horsetails) sub-class, native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It has separate sterile non-reproductive and fertile spore-bearing stems growing from a perennial underground rhizomatous stem system.
Equisetum (/ ˌ ɛ k w ɪ ˈ s iː t əm /; horsetail) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. [2]Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire subclass Equisetidae, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understorey of late Paleozoic forests.
The old rhymes "Mackerel sky, not twenty-four hours dry" [3] and "Mares' tails and mackerel scales make lofty ships to carry low sails" [6] both refer to this long-recognized phenomenon. Norwegian Mackerel displaying the skin pattern of a mackerel sky. Other phrases in weather lore take mackerel skies as a sign of changeable weather. Examples ...
Equisetum laevigatum is a species of horsetail in the family Equisetaceae. [2] [3] It is known by the common names smooth horsetail [4] and smooth scouring rush. This plant is native to much of North America except for northern Canada and southern Mexico. It is usually found in moist areas in sandy and gravelly substrates. It may be annual or ...
Equisetum palustre, the marsh horsetail, [2] is a perennial herbaceous pteridophyte belonging to the subclass of horsetails (Equisetidae). It is widespread in cooler regions of Eurasia and North America .