That grass is a type of horsetail. I have two native down by the pond bank. One of the oldest plants on earth. Those darkled areas are the actual leaves.
Equisetum (
horsetail,
snake grass,
puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire subclass Equisetidae, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understorey of late Paleozoic forests. Some equisetids were large trees reaching to 30 m (98 ft) tall. The genus
Calamites of the family Calamitaceae, for example, is abundant in coal deposits from the Carboniferous period. The pattern of spacing of nodes in horsetails, wherein those toward the apex of the shoot are increasingly close together, is said to have inspired John Napier to invent logarithms. Modern horsetails first appeared during the Jurassic period.
A superficially similar but entirely unrelated flowering plant genus, mare's tail (
Hippuris), is occasionally referred to as "horsetail", and adding to confusion, the name "mare's tail" is sometimes applied to
Equisetum.
Despite centuries of use in traditional medicine, there is no evidence that
Equisetum has any medicinal properties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum
. Always thankful for my work giving everyone a turkey. Turkey at Thanksgiving and hams and a bonus check at Christmas. I’d hate to see how much they spend on 1000+ turkeys for all their employees. Not the same ones as last year but either way I’m appreciative. The ones last year were delicious so hopefully these will be too. It saves a lot of money not having to buy a turkey. We are having 4 Thanksgiving celebrations this year so I don’t think I’ll go hungry either lol. Happy Thanksgiving week to everyone. Hope everyone has a short week. I do lol. My week ends Wednesday.
