Equisetaceae
Variegated scouringrush
Equisetum variegatum
- Family
- Equisetaceae
- Genus
- Equisetum
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Common names
By language (23)
- Belarusian
- Хвошч стракаты
- Bulgarian
- Пъстър хвощ
- Catalan
- Prêle panachée
- Chinese
- 斑纹木贼, 兴安木贼
- Czech
- Přeslička různobarvá, Cídivka různobarvá
- Danish
- Liden Padderok
- Dutch
- Bonte paardenstaart
- English
- Variegated scouringrush, Northern scouring-rush, Variegated horsetail, Variegated scouring rush
- Estonian
- Liivosi
- Finnish
- Kirjokorte
- French
- Prêle panachée
- German
- Bunter Schachtelhalm, Prêle panachée
- Hungarian
- Tarka zsurló
- Icelandic
- Beitieski
- Irish
- Scuab eich bhreac
- Italian
- Equiseto variegato
- Lithuanian
- Margasis asiūklis, Prêle panachée
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Fjellsnelle
- Polish
- Skrzyp pstry
- Russian
- Хвощ пёстрый
- Slovenian
- Pisana preslica
- Swedish
- Smalfräken, Prêle panachée
- Welsh
- Marchrawnen fraith
Synonyms
- Equisetum variegatum var. variegatum
- Hippochaete variegata Bruhin
- Hippochaete variegata Farw.
- Hippochaete variegata var. anceps (Milde ) Farw.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
Photos
Photo: 日: Jnn, CC BY 2.1, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Randal, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kruczy89, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Anjelika Solé, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Ed Alverson, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Bartosz Cuber, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: PierreGrrr, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Saskia, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: YLL YLL, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.