If you take a walk through a wetland area or spend much time exploring area trails and parks, you are sure to come across an almost leafless hollow-stemmed plant known as scouring rush or rough ...

Scouring rush, or Equisetum hyemale, features bamboo-like dark green stems that look like nothing else – they are ridged vertically, stiff and hollow, according to Helen Hamilton, past president of ...

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) scientists have discovered a plant in Erie County that has never been recorded in Pennsylvania. The plant, dwarf scouring rush, was identified with the aid of a ...

Scouring rush (Equisetum hyemale) belongs to the horsetail family. Folks with an affection for Latin names usually call this group “equisetums.” This native perennial is easily identified; no other ...

Common scouring rush (Equisetum hyemale) frequents forested floodplains, roadsides, swampy woods, and wet fields. In summer its long, dark green stems are often well over 2 feet high, but by the ...

When we bought our house, one thing that stood out to me while looking over the typical “new subdivision” (horrible soil) yard was that there was a lot of horsetail rush (Equisetum) growing near the ...

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