The Great Horsetail is a primitive form of vegetation that has survived from the Permian Epoch and was food for dinosaurs and early reptiles,

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The Great Horsetail is a primitive form of vegetation that has survived from the Permian Epoch and was food for dinosaurs and early reptiles, They survive to this day in cooler wet areas.

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