Also known as a giant horsetail. Probably around 30cm tall, green with thin 2-3mm needle like leaves stemming from a central stem.
Found at low to middle elevation, almost everywhere. Horsetails can be easily removed, but grows back like a weed. A fun fact I learned, horsetails used to grow as tall as trees.
There is truly a forest of this horsetail in the low section of the UBNA just outside the Urban Horticulture Center. I am not totally sure which species this is, but the large cone-like tip looked the most like Giant Horsetail. These stems, topped with the cone-like structure, grow just next to a lot of horse tail that might be describes as leafy, it has little leaves/spikes actually emerging in circles around the stem. Are these two types one species of horse-tail at different stages? Or two species? Or a male and female of the same species?
Equisetum telmateia (great horsetail or northern giant horsetail) is a species of Equisetum (horsetail) with an unusual distribution, with one subspecies native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, and a second subspecies native to western North America. The North American subspecies is often simply but ambiguously called "giant horsetail", but that name may just as well refer to the Latin American Equisetum giganteum and Equisetum myriochaetum.
