Need help identifying a plant

[Oldskool2]

Does anybody know what the name of this plant is? its a dark green color, grows 3-4 ft tall is segmented every 6 inches or so and is hollow inside like a straw... oh and deer love it!!
 
 

[rastaman]

Looks like what we call river cane down here.  i've never seen deer eat it, but hogs will. It is hard to tell from your picture.

[Shawn Rackley]

The latin name is equisetum . Also known as horsetail someplaces

[rastaman]

I just googled it Shawn...that is a cool looking plant!

[White Falcon]

Horse tail. Cut a bunch and when it dries use as a decoration in a vaise.

[Oldskool2]

Horsetail it is!!  rough horsetail to be exact, I also just googled it and that is definitely the same plant. the stuff is amazingly dense, deer love to bed in it, and they have been eating the heck out of it...
Thanks guys!!

[Sarah]

If I recall correctly, it sequesters silica from the soil amazingly well. If you walk through it you will notice it makes kind of a glassy scratching sound. It's really abrasive due to the silica and can be used to clean and scour. Never heard of animals eating it... very interesting, and very old plant!

[MCNSC]

Yea looks like horsetail, interesting plant, very primitive. Didn't think deer ate it though. I believe it is poison to humans.

[Stumpkiller]

Huh.  I have horsetail beside the road on my property but it never gets more than a foot tall.  Makes a good metal buffer - "scouring rush"

A very ancient plant.  100 million years and counting.

[owlbait]

Early plant in biological evolution. I believe it was one of the first plants to evolve from a water habitat to a wetland habitat. Used as a primitive abrasive/cleaner. Really neat plant, not much use for cover or food.

[Gordon Jabben]

We always called them tules as in "Way back in the tules".  Kind of like "Way back in the sticks".

ive heard it called a bunch of different things.
  i just call them reeds. and deer do eat them, ive seen them. turns there poop bright green.