Horsetail
Equisetum arvense
About Horsetail
Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) is a herb used in the Western Herbalism tradition to help with Bone Health, Kidney Support, Hair Loss, and UTI. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Equisetum arvense, the field horsetail or common horsetail, is an herbaceous perennial horsetail native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. It has separate sterile non-reproductive and fertile spore-bearing stems growing from a perennial underground rhizomatous stem system. The fertile stems are produced in early spring and are non-photosynthetic, while the green sterile stems start to grow after the fertile stems have wilted and persist through the summer until the first autumn frosts....
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist