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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Also called 🐄︎ giant cow parsnip, giant cow parsley, hogsbane, cartwheel-flower, wild parsnip (although do not confuse with unrelated similar-named
wild parsnip Pastinaca sativa
), and wild rhubarb.
Sister-species to
X✋︎ ☠︎ 🐄︎ common cowparsnip Heracleum maximum ☠︎ ✋︎X,
both part of
🐖︎ hogweed / 🐄︎ cow parsnip genus Heracleum
in
🥕︎ carrot/celery/parsley family Apiaceae.
Native to central Asia.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key).
Invasive > learn+quiz
Invasive > 🌐︎ global
Invasive > 🌐︎ various
Invasive > 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA
Invasive > report it!
Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA
Invasive > Michigan
prohibited in Michigan, incl. seeds, fragments and derivatives.
Identification, Prevention and Control information from MSU.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
On No-Planting List by Seneca Nation of Indians SNI.
(page 62)