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Equisetum sylvaticum

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Home Perennial Equisetum sylvaticum

Damp woods on acid soils, moors etc.

Family: Equisetaceae
Height: 0.6 m / 2 ft
Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 1 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 3 of 5

Native Habitat

Wood Horsetail, Woodland horsetail Equisetum sylvaticum native habitat is Damp woods on acid soils, moors etc.

Edible Uses

Strobil (the fertile shoots in spring) - cooked. An asparagus substitute, though it is neither very palatable nor very nutritious. Caution is advised, see the notes above on toxicity. Roots - cooked. A source of starch. Caution is advised, see the notes above on toxicity.

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