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Horsetail Hybrid Clans
Within the Horsetail Family there are two groups, within those the species are closer related and are hybridizing within the group. To the group around the Rough Horsetail Equisetum hyemale the Branched Horsetail Equisetum ramosissimum, and the Variegated Horsetail Equisetum variegatum are belonging. The three hybrids, which are possible between the three parent species mentioned above, are the following:
 
Equisetum hyemale, Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetum hyemale / Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x moorei, Moore's Horsetail
Equisetum x moorei / Moore's Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x ramosissimum
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum ramosissimum, Branched Horsetail
Equisetum ramosissimum / Branched Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum hyemale, Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetum hyemale / Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x trachyodon, Mackay's Horsetail
Equisetum x trachyodon / Mackay's Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x variegatum
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum variegatum, Variegated Horsetail
Equisetum variegatum / Variegated Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum ramosissimum, Branched Horsetail
Equisetum ramosissimum / Branched Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x meridionale, Hybrid Horsetail
Equisetum x meridionale / Hybrid Horsetail
= Equisetum ramosissimum x variegatum
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum variegatum, Variegated Horsetail
Equisetum variegatum / Variegated Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Horsetail Hybrid Clans are usually fertile, therefore sites are not rare where a hybrid clans occurs abundantly, but without one or both of the parent species. In the Rhine Valley some ten kilometers around Karlsruhe there is a cumulation of hybrid clans of the Rough Horsetail. Beside the hybriod clans mentioned above there are also some triple hybrids, of which an origin as hybridisation between the Rough Horsetail Equisetum hyemale and each one of the hybrid clans mentioned above is assumed.
 
Equisetum hyemale, Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetum hyemale / Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x ascendens, Ascending Horsetail
Equisetum x ascendens / Ascending Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x x moorei
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x moorei, Moore's Horsetail
Equisetum x moorei / Moore's Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x ramosissimum
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum hyemale, Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetum hyemale / Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x alsaticum, Alsatian Horsetail
Equisetum x alsaticum / Alsatian Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x x trachyodon
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x trachyodon, Mackay's Horsetail
Equisetum x trachyodon / Mackay's Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x variegatum
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum hyemale, Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetum hyemale / Rough Horsetail, Dutch Rush
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 

 
Equisetum x geissertii, Geissert's Horsetail
Equisetum x geissertii / Geissert's Horsetail
= Equisetum hyemale x x meridionale
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 

 
Equisetum x meridionale, Hybrid Horsetail
Equisetum x meridionale / Hybrid Horsetail
= Equisetum ramosissimum x variegatum
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 

 
To the second group around the Field Horsetail Equisetum arvense the Water Horsetail Equisetum fluviatile is belonging, as well as the Marsh Horsetail Equisetum palustre, the Shady Horsetail Equisetum pratense, the Wood Horsetail Equisetum sylvaticum, and the Great Horsetail Equisetum telmateia. Of this group I know currently only few hybrids.
 
Equisetum arvense, Field Horsetail
Equisetum arvense / Field Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x litorale, Hybrid Horsetail
Equisetum x litorale / Hybrid Horsetail
= Equisetum arvense x fluviatile
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum fluviatile, Water Horsetail
Equisetum fluviatile / Water Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum fluviatile, Water Horsetail
Equisetum fluviatile / Water Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum x dycei, Dyce's Hybrid Horsetail
Equisetum x dycei / Dyce's Hybrid Horsetail
= Equisetum fluviatile x palustre
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum palustre, Marsh Horsetail
Equisetum palustre / Marsh Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 

 
Hybrids in which the three following species are involved I have not seen yet.
 
Equisetum pratense, Shady Horsetail
Equisetum pratense / Shady Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum sylvaticum, Wood Horsetail
Equisetum sylvaticum / Wood Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Equisetum telmateia, Great Horsetail
Equisetum telmateia / Great Horsetail
Equisetaceae / Horsetail Fam.
 
 
Naturally this list of Horsetail Hybrid Clans isn't complete. It will be continued on occasion.  
 

 


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