Hippochaete variegata Equisetum variegatum, commonly known as variegated horsetail[1] or variegated scouring rush, is a species of vascular plant in the horsetail family Equisetaceae.

The stem nodes are covered with a sheath that is marked with a black band and has dark teeth with white edges.

It has a circumpolar distribution in the northern hemisphere,[2][3] where it is occurs in northern Europe, Asia and North America including Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Its range extends south as far as the Pyrenees and Apennines in Europe, Mongolia and Japan in Asia and Connecticut, Wisconsin and Oregon in North America.

It occurs in dune slacks, mountain flushes and beside lakes, rivers and canals.