X🔥︎ DO NOT BURN 🔥︎X. Avoid all contact with smoke.
- If contact with smoke, seek ⚕︎ medical attention with all due speed.
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X⛽︎✂︎ DO NOT USE HEDGECLIPPERS ✂︎⛽︎X. Neither petrol/gasoline nor electric:
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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:
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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. This plant is also sometimes called Heracleum lanatum.
This and the sister-species are part of
hogweed/cow parsnip genus Heracleum
in
🥕︎ carrot/celery/parsley family Apiaceae.
Native to 🇨🇦 Canada except Nunavut, and 🇺🇸 USA except for Hawai'i and the Gulf Coast.
▭ 🌎︎ Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(colors).
Bloom dates.
(page 58)
Cowparsnip: A common look-alike to giant hogweed.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Heracleum hosts caterpillars of 7 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.