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Water hemlock (Conium maculatum) flowers

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Photo of rough chervil flowers, Chaerophyllum temulum. Natural background of wild flowers

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

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

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Goutweed flowering bloom closeup in backyard garden

Conium maculatum poison parsley spotted hemlock corobane carrot fern devils bread porridge tall plant with small white flower umbels light by flash

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

Aegopodium podagraria. Inflorescence close-up against a background of leaves

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

Small white inflorescence of this famous highly poisonous plant

White flowers of wild carrot plant. Queen Anne's lace. Beautiful Summer scenery of Latvia, Northern Europe.

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Aegopodium. The most well-known member is the Aegopodium podagraria, the ground elder also known as snow-on-the-mountain, Bishop's weed, goutweed, native to Europe and Asia

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.

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