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  2. Conium maculatum - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. A guide to some of NC’s most dangerous plants, from poison ...

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    Spotted Water Hemlock is internally poisonous (ingesting can be fatal), and giant hogweed is both internally and externally poisonous. Touching this plant can lead to severe chemical burns.

  4. Conium - Wikipedia

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    Conium (/ k oʊ ˈ n aɪ. ə m / or / ˈ k oʊ n i ə m /) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. [1] As of December 2020, Plants of the World Online accepts six species. [2]All species of the genus are poisonous to humans.

  5. What is poison hemlock? What to know about this pretty but ...

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    Even just touching the plant can make a human sick, and an animal could die from ingesting less than 500 grams of the plant. To remove poison hemlock, the plants must be dug up, being careful not ...

  6. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    The plant is poisonous, containing cardiostimulant compounds such as adonidin and aconitic acid. [42] Aesculus hippocastanum: horse-chestnut, buckeye, conker tree Sapindaceae: All parts of the raw plant are poisonous due to saponins and glycosides such as aesculin, causing nausea, muscle twitches, and sometimes paralysis. [43] Agave spp.

  7. Poison hemlock is growing in Missouri this summer. How to ...

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    The poisonous plant blends in with nonpoisonous plants and grows all across Missouri, blooming from now until September, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. Poison hemlock is ...

  8. North America's 'deadliest' plant is back: What you need to ...

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    Poison hemlock plants are back in Central Ohio: Here's what you need to know about North America's deadliest plant

  9. Coniine - Wikipedia

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    The history of coniine is understandably tied to the poison hemlock plant, since the natural product was not synthesizable until the 1880s. [7] Jews in the Middle East were poisoned by coniine after consuming quail in the area that usually ate hemlock seeds, and Greeks on the island of Lesbos who also consumed quail suffered from the same poisoning, causing myoglobinuria and acute kidney ...