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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, ...
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.
The common mare's tail is a creeping, perennial herb, found in shallow waters and mud flats. It roots underwater, but most of its leaves are above the water surface. The leaves occur in whorls of 6–12; those above water are 0.5 to 2.5 cm long and up to 3 mm wide, whereas those under water are thinner and limper, and longer than those above ...
Common mare's tail, Hippuris vulgaris. Mountain mare's tail, Hippuris montana; Fourleaf mare's tail, Hippuris tetraphylla; They are aquatic plants found in shallow ponds and streams, both slow-moving and fast-flowing. Hippuris, despite being a flowering plant, is sometimes mistakenly identified with the non-flowering plant horsetail.
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 ...
Cirrus fibratus, also called Cirrus filosus, [2] is a type of cirrus cloud.The name cirrus fibratus is derived from Latin, meaning "fibrous". [3] These clouds are similar to cirrus uncinus, commonly known as "mares' tails," yet different in that fibratus clouds do not have tufts or hooks at the end. [4]
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 pratense, commonly known as meadow horsetail, shade horsetail or shady horsetail, is a widespread horsetail (Equisetophyta) and it is a pteridophyte.Shade horsetail can be commonly found in forests with tall trees or very thick foliage that can provide shade and tends to grow closer and thicker around streams, ponds and rivers.