Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants - tiny spores that walk and jump. The researchers used high speed cameras to find out how horsetail (Equisetum) spores ...

Found growing in Costa Rica’s marshy wetlands, horsetail (Equisetum spp.) is an ancient plant that has persisted largely unchanged for over 300 million years. This tenacious plant earned its nickname ...

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 ...

The researchers used high speed cameras to find out how horsetail (Equisetum) spores dispersed. This revealed that the microscopic spores' "legs" curl and uncurl when the moisture levels change, ...