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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 variegatum
Equisetum L. (トクサ)Chisimahimedokusa (チシマヒメドクサ, 千島姫木賊), variegated horsetailLifeform: evergreen perennial horsetail < 40 (80) cm in height Morophology: highly variable (often misidentified)
ssp. variegatum |
Distribution: widespread in the Northern Hemisphere (tundra), including Hokkaido
Rare → RDB Japan (2007) = VU Habitat: wetlands (湿原), including river banks and lake shores, and wet subalpine zone → tussock (谷地坊主) |
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[1/2] in a tussock tundra near Toolik Lake LTER Station, on August 8 2009.