Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Monilophyta Cantino et Donoghue - ferns and horsetails |
| class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| order | Equisetales DC. ex Bercht. & J.Presl |
| family | Equisetaceae Michx. ex DC. |
| genus | Equisetum L. - horsetail |
| hybrid | Equisetum × nelsonii (A.A.Eaton) J.H.Schaffn. |