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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 ...
Tsuga (/ ˈ s uː ɡ ə /, [3] from Japanese 栂 (ツガ), the name of Tsuga sieboldii) is a genus of conifers in the subfamily Abietoideae of Pinaceae, the pine family.The English-language common name "hemlock" arose from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant hemlock. [4]
Conium maculatum (poison hemlock) is infamous in its use as a poison. [35] [36] A small overdose of extract of the plant causes paralysis with higher toxic doses causing a ceasing of respiratory function followed by death. [31] Poison hemlock was historically used in official executions and assassinations. [37]
Poison hemlock is a "highly toxic biennial," according to the National Parks Service, which means it's a flowering plant that has a two-year life cycle and can be deadly for humans and animals if ...
These plants are extremely toxic. Spotted Water Hemlock is internally poisonous (ingesting can be fatal), and giant hogweed is both internally and externally poisonous. Touching this plant can ...
"Poison hemlock is toxic at any time in its life, whether it’s 10 feet tall or the little bushy plant," he said. "Even the seeds are poisonous."
Conium maculatum, a poisonous herbaceous plant more broadly, other species in the genus Conium ; not to be confused with the related water hemlock and hemlock water-dropwort Tsuga , a genus of coniferous trees
Poison Ivy, a well-known toxic plant common in Texas especially during the spring and summer, causes an itchy painful rash. This is caused by its sap that has a clear liquid called urushiol.