scouring rush
Equisetum latin

A nice patch of scouring rushes, too!

Scouring Rush, a reference to its early use for cleaning pots, made possible by its high silica content.

This grass is scouring rush.

Underbrush of ferns and scouring rushes.

In the marsh near the water's edge, ten-foot-tall scouring rushes, cattails, and bulrushes dwarfed the men.

Topsoil we imported to construct a rock garden harbored horsenettle and scouring rush."

The rest of the flora included scouring rushes, Sphenophyllum, ferns, and seed ferns.

Equisetum hyemale is commonly known as scouring rush.

Search a a streamside for the scouring rush, an Equisetum that frequents marshy or streamside areas.

Equisetum scirpoides (Dwarf Scouring Rush)

Equisetum laevigatum is a species of horsetail known by the common names smooth scouring rush and smooth horsetail.

Horsetail or Scouring Rush (Equisetum spp.)

The sparse vegetation under the mature cottonwoods consists mostly of scouring rush, Kentucky bluegrass, smooth brome, and other invasive grasses and weeds.

Equisetum variegatum (commonly known as variegated horsetail or variegated scouring rush) is a horsetail native to the Northern Hemisphere.

Equisetum scirpoides (Dwarf scouring rush, Dwarf Horsetail) Michx., Fl.

Some authorities claim that the name of the hamlet, first Rush Valley and later Rushland was due to the availability of "scouring rushes" used by early settlers for cleaning pots and pans.

The militant smell of hot lead began to permeate the room, competing with the Major's pipe smoke, and quite overpowering the pleasantly domestic atmosphere of rising bread, cooking, dried herbs, scouring rushes, and lye soap that normally filled the kitchen.

Equisetum hyemale (rough horsetail or scouring rush), known in South Africa as snake grass, is a species of horsetail native to moist forests, forest edges and stream banks, swamps and fens throughout the Holarctic Kingdom.

As a result they were used as pot-scourers, especially the species E. hyemale, called Dutch rush or scouring rush, and used in Britain and North America for cleaning and polishing metal such as pewter, brass and copper, and for scouring wooden containers and milk-pails.

Another one, Equisetum, is most used by those who like to take the family camping.

It is one of several extinct species placed in the living genus Equisetum.

There is only one living genus of horsetails -Equisetum - although its many species are very widespread.

All living horsetails are placed in the genus Equisetum.

A favorite stand of equisetum, a primitive plant, was still there, reminding me that some species can last for eons.

Equisetum is the only living genus of horsetails.

Horsetails (species of Equisetum) have spores which are all of the same size.

All other Equisetum species are toxic.

The genus Equisetum is near-cosmopolitan, being absent only from Antarctica.

Sharrock's interests extended to Equisetum, disregarded in his time.

He specialized in research of the family Poaceae and the genus Equisetum.

Equisetum telmateia may be a useful source of antioxidants.

There have been reports of horsetail products being contaminated with a related plant called Equisetum palustre.

Horsetails such as Equisetum palustre and spikerush are also found.

Along with the other fossils found at the site specimens of Equisetum thermale are highly detailed and complete.

The antithiamine action of Equisetum.

This one shows the 'cones' of a common horsetail,Equisetum arvense.

Within Equisetum scirpoides there are two subspecies :

Equisetum hyemale is commonly known as scouring rush.

Equisetum hyemale, used by some Plateau tribes.

Moose eat a variety of foods, particularly sedges, equisetum (horsetail), pond weeds, and grasses.

The smallest of the currently occurring representatives of the genus Equisetum (Horsetail).

The largest of horsetail is the species Equisetum myriochaetum, of central Mexico.

The living members of the genus Equisetum are divided into two distinct lineages, which are usually treated as subgenera.

Equisetum, a genus in the Equisetales that includes: