Equisetum

Accepted species 40 Documented here 15 Family Equisetaceae

Accepted species 40 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Equisetum arvense L. 6,160 documented
Equisetum hyemale L. 2,512 documented
Equisetum sylvaticum L. 2,130 documented
Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. 1,771 documented
Equisetum fluviatile L. 1,451 documented
Equisetum pratense Ehrh. 811 documented
Equisetum palustre L. 550 documented
Equisetum scirpoides Michx. 506 documented
Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr 369 documented
Equisetum ramosissimum Desf. 315 documented
Equisetum laevigatum A.Braun 191 documented
Equisetum bogotense Kunth 77 documented
Equisetum giganteum L. 77 documented
Equisetum myriochaetum Schltdl. & Cham. 12 documented
Equisetum diffusum D.Don 6 documented
Equisetum × alsaticum (H.P.Fuchs & Geissert) G.Phil ex Lubienski & Bennert 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × ascendens Lubienski & Bennert 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × bowmanii C.N.Page 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × dycei C.N.Page 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × ferrissii Clute 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × font-queri Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × geissertii Lubienski & Bennert 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × haukeanum Mickel & A.R.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × lapponicum Lubienski & Dörken 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × litorale Kühlew. ex Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × lofotense Lubienski 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × mackayi (Newman) Brichan 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × mchaffieae C.N.Page 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × meridionale (Milde) Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × mildeanum Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × montellii Hiitonen 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × moorei Newman 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × nelsonii (Farw.) J.H.Schaffn. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × robertsii Dines 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × schaffneri Milde 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × sergijevskianum C.N.Page & Gureeva 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × torgesianum Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum × willmotii C.N.Page 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum braunii Milde 0 below the evidence gate
Equisetum pyramidale Goldm. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.