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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Fern (シダ類) > Equisetaceae (トクサ科) > Equisetum pratense
Equisetum L. (トクサ)Yachisugina (ヤチスギナ, 谷地杉菜), meadow horsetail, shade horsetail or shady horsetailLifeform: deciduous, rhizomatous, perennial fern |
Distribution: arctic and temperate regions of Europe, North America, central and northern Asia (eastern Hokkaido and Iwate Prefecture in Honshu)
Rare → RDB Japan (2007) = VU Habitat: shade provided by the canopies of forests and/or canopy herbs, tending to grow close to streams, ponds and rivers |
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[1/2] near Akanuma Pond on Kushiro Wetland, eastern Hokkaido, on June 28 2015.