Horsetail

The first photo shows the Strobilus of a Horsetail, a cone-like structure where the spores are released from. Some stems have a strobilus at the tip, as in photo 1, and other stems look like the second photo, which shows a typical sterile stem. I love photographing strobili! Photographed these yesterday just within the city limits, going west along 22X. They were growing near the edge of a slough. I used Picnik (sp?) to join the two images.