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Conium maculatum, known as hemlock (British English) or poison hemlock (American English), is a highly poisonous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa. It is herbaceous without woody parts and has a biennial lifecycle. A hardy plant capable of living in a variety of environments, hemlock is widely ...
The stem of poison hemlock has purple splotches, an easy identifying factor. All parts of the plant are extremely poisonous. Poisoning can happen in humans from inhaling the plant’s fumes or ...
Poison hemlock grows from a center stalk and has light green stems and fern-like leaves that can grow up to 6 feet tall in Missouri’s climate. It forms umbrella-shaped clusters of 12-15 white ...
Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock [2] or western hemlock-spruce, [3] is a species of hemlock native to the northwest coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California. [4] [5] The Latin species name means 'variable leaves'. [6]
Poison hemlock and wild parsnips are bad because they’re not native to Ohio, making them an invasive species crowding out native vegetation. Poison hemlock is often found in yards, roadsides ...
Oenanthe crocata, hemlock water-dropwort (sometimes known as dead man's fingers) is a flowering plant in the carrot family, native to Europe, ...
Poison hemlock has umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers with fern-like leaves. Distinguishing features include its height - six to 10 feet tall - and that they have red spotting on the stem.
An Eastern Hemlock branch at the Kortright Centre for Conservation. Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, [3] eastern hemlock-spruce, [4] or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America. It is the state tree of Pennsylvania. [5]