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White umbrels on the herb sweet cicely with a blurred natural foliage background

An abstract image or background of wild meum flowers in the field

A flower-head of the Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum), an introduced and toxic species, growing in central Chile. All parts of the plant are poisonous, possibly even deadly to humans, and remain so even months or years after the plant dies at the end of its two-year lifespan.

Aegopodium podagraria grows as a weed in the wild

Small white inflorescence of this famous highly poisonous plant

Plants on the river bank. Summer June. Flowering herbs. The flow of water.

$Medium to tall, rather robust, slightly hairy biennial or perennial, to 1.5m. Leaves dull green, 3-pinnate. Flowers white, 3-4mm, the umbels with 4-15 rays, without lower bracts. Fruit 7-10mm, short beaked, bristle at the base, brown or black when ripe.\nHabitat: Rough grassy places, generally at low altitudes.\nFlowering Season: April-June.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except the far North.\n\nVery common in the Netherlands; one of the earliest umbels to come into flower.$

Inflorescence of a herb of Hemlock or Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum) close up

Smyrnium olusatrum, common name Alexanders, is an edible cultivated flowering plant of the family Apiaceae. It is also known as alisanders, horse parsley, black lovage

Soft and lush white Angelica flowers, shallow focus. Square format.

A close up of the blooming noxious herb cowbane (Cicuta virosa).

$Medium to tall, rather bristly biennial; stem erect, purple or purple spotted. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, dark green, but eventually turning purple; leaflets oval, toothed. Flowers white, 2mm, in compound umbels which are nodding in bud, the petals hairless; bracts usually absent, bracteoles hairy. Fruit oblong, tapered towards the apex, 4-7mm, often purple.\nHabitat: Rough grassland, semi shaded places, on well drained soils, generally in low attitudes.\nFlowering Season: May-July.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe; absent from the Faeroes, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Spitsbergen.\n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands for the described Habitats.\nToxicity:\nChaerophyllum temulum contains (mainly in the upper parts and fruits) a volatile alkaloid chaerophylline, as well as other (probably glycosidally bound) toxins, the chemistry and pharmacology of which has, as yet, been but little studied. Externally, the sap of the plant can cause inflammation of the skin and persistent rashes. If consumed, the plant causes gastro-intestinal inflammation, drowsiness, vertigo and cardiac weakness. Human poisonings have seldom been observed, because the plant lacks aromatic essential oils that could lead to its being confused with edible umbellifers used to flavour food. It is, however, used occasionally in folk medicine. Animal poisonings by the plant are commoner than those of humans, pigs and cattle thus intoxicated exhibiting a staggering gait, unsteady stance, apathy and severe, exhausting colic, ending sometimes in death. \nHerbal medicine:\nChaerophyllum temulum has been used in folk medicine, in small doses, to treat arthritis, dropsy, and chronic skin complaints, and as a spring tonic. The early modern physician Boerhaave (1668–1738) once successfully used a decoction of the herb combined with Sarsaparilla to treat a woman suffering from leprosy – in the course of which treatment temporary blindness was a severe side effect following each dose (source Wikipedia).$

Anthriscus sylvestris grows in the wild in spring

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Valeriana officinalis - Real valerian. Common name, Valerian.

Close-up of white flowers with an old building in the background

Abstract of white wild flowers under old tree trunk

The hemlock (Conium maculatum), poisonous plants in the ditch.

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