DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Equisetum sylvaticum | Wood Horsetail 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Wood horsetail is a circumboreal species [18,19,21,28].  In North
America it is distributed throughout Alaska and Canada south to the
Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes states, New England, and North
Carolina [5,14,33,36].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES37  Mountain meadows


STATES : 
     AK  CT  DE  ID  IL  IN  IA  KY  ME  MD
     MA  MI  MN  MT  NH  NJ  NY  NC  ND  OH
     OR  PA  RI  SD  TN  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI
     WY  AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS  ON  PE
     PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  CUVA  DEWA  DENA  GLAC
     ISRO  LACL  MORR  PIRO  SLBE  VOYA
     WRST  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    63  Cottonwood
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Wood horsetail is most prevalent in lowland wet conifer forests but is
also common in mixed upland, dry conifer, and deciduous forest habitats
[3].  In addition, it is found in meadows, bogs, swamps, and along
streambanks [5,19,34,46].

The following publications classify wood horsetail as a dominant
herbaceous layer component:

Field guide to forest ecosystems of west-central Alberta [6]
Classification, description, and dynamics of plant communities after
  fire in the taiga of interior Alaska [15]
The Alaska vegetation classification [44]

Species commonly associated with wood horsetail in jack pine (Pinus
banksiana), white spruce (Picea glauca), or black spruce (P. mariana)
habitats include alder (Alnus spp.), willows (Salix spp.), highbush
cranberry (Viburnum edule), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), bog Labrador
tea (Ledum groenlandicum), twinflower (Linnaea borealis), blueberry
(Vaccinium spp.), red raspberry (Rubus idaeus), gooseberry (Ribes spp.),
honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata), leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne
calyculata), prickly rose (Rosa acicularis), wild lily-of-the-valley
(Maianthemum canadense), naked miterwort (Mitella nuda), coltsfoot
(Petasites spp.), common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), fireweed
(Epilobium angustifolium), bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis
canadensis), sedges (Carex spp.), fire moss (Ceratodon purpurea),
feathermosses (Hylocomium splendens, Pleurozium schreberi), and sphagnum
mosses (Sphagnum spp.) [1,4,6,11,29].

Related categories for Species: Equisetum sylvaticum | Wood Horsetail