identify cow parsnip Heracleum maximum

X🔥︎ DO NOT BURN 🔥︎X. Avoid all contact with smoke.

If contact with smoke, seek ⚕︎ medical attention with all due speed.

X⛽︎✂︎ DO NOT USE HEDGECLIPPERS ✂︎⛽︎X. Neither petrol/gasoline nor electric:

I met a guy whose petrol/gasoline hedgeclippers went through poison ivy before he noticed — plant fragments hit his lungs, the poison entered his bloodstream, hitting all body organs horribly, and putting him under ⚕︎ medical care for months.
Perhaps a 😷 P100 HEPA respirator/filter mask would have helped, but I suggest maximum PPE and ✂︎ hand tools, nice and slow!

X✋︎ ☠︎ DO NOT TOUCH ☠︎ ✋︎X. To avoid skin rash and irritation phytophotodermatitis PPD, due to contact with phototoxic furanocoumarins, leading to ¿permanent damage, disfigurement and blindness?, avoid contact with all parts of this plant [1] with your ✋︎ skin, 👕︎ clothing, 👟︎ shoes and 🐕︎ pets:

If contact with anything, seek ⚕︎ professional medical advice with all due speed. This author has heard of chemical causing permanent disfigurement of skin if the victim fails to stay out of the sun for 10 days or 6 years due to its phototoxic effect, causing phytophotodermatitis PPD. If contact with the eyes, I read it can cause blindness. Seek someone with more knowledge than me. Now.
Don't delay. The toxins (furanocoumarins) are activated by UV light, and UV gets you outdoors, even in the shade.

Also called and punctuated (in various combinations) American cow-parsnip and common cowparsnip, and sometimes called Heracleum lanatum.

Although do not confuse with unrelated similar-named wild parsnip Pastinaca sativa, and sister-species X✋︎ ☠︎ giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum ☠︎ ✋︎X which is also sometimes called wild parsnip. Cowparsnip: A common lookalike to giant hogweed.

This and the sister-species are part of hogweed/cow parsnip genus Heracleum in 🥕︎ carrot/celery/parsley family Apiaceae.

Native to all of 🇨🇦 Canada except Nunavut, and all of 🇺🇸 USA except for Hawai'i and the Gulf Coast. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key).

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Heracleum hosts caterpillars of 7 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas. Bloom dates. (page 58)

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