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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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/mare's tail/

Thank you kindly. I was unaware it went under other names.

Properly, it is horsetail, though locally it is often called 'mare's
tail'. (We've had all this before!)

We have, so PLEASE don't say that the name "horsetail" is any more
"proper" than "mare's tail". The former is merely the most common
of the common names for it - there really isn't any difference in
the use between "harebell" and "bluebell" for Campanula rotundifolia.

Mare's tail proper is Hippuris vulgaris, and is a still or
slow-moving-water plant

It's certainly rarely called horsetail :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.