Identify this weed ?

 


Could anyone identify this for me its popping up everywhere under my
stone
bedding  there's loads of them ?


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staceyb_2003

 



Some species of horsetail

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/b/Equisetaceae/none/none/cultivar/0/

 

On 4月29日, �後7:20, staceyb_2003

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It's a Equisetum arvense or Horsetail and is edible.

 

On 4月29日, �後7:20, staceyb_2003

It's a Equisetum arvense or Horsetail and is edible.


Caution: TWikipedia<<The buds are eaten as a vegetable in Japan and Korea in
spring time. All other Equisetum species are toxic. In polluted conditions,
it may synthesise nicotine. There is a pic on wiki and it doesn't look like
what you showed.

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regards, piedmont (michael)
The Practical BBQ'r - http://sites.google.com/site/thepracticalbbqr/
(mawil55) Hardiness Zone 7-8

 

and it is both ancient and has 216 chromosomes, the highest I think found to
date.  


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Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan
on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago