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Common Horsetail
Equisetum arvense

This is the top of a fertile stem of horsetail. The infertile stem is green (and seemingly slower to grow, as I have been waiting to take a picture of one).

Location: Sheldon Jackson College Campus, Sitka, Alaska

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