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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.

A closeup shot of a poison hemlock plant.

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

Cicuta virosa is a perennial plant from the umbellifer family

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

A beautiful chamomile grows in a field and insects crawl on it. CREATIVE. A flower with white petals and a yellow center. Insects are on the flower. The wind blows a flower growing in a clearing.

Untouched nature. When a small piece of cultivated land is left alone for a year during the summer, a remarkable transformation takes place. wildflowers begins to emerge, painting the landscape with vibrant hues. Native plants reclaim their territory and bring biodiversity back to the area. Buried seeds from seasons past awaken, shooting up.

Water hemlock (Conium maculatum) flowers

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

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

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

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

Wild giant Hogweed plant with flowering. Heracléum. Poisonous plant. A giant dangerous allergic plant grows in a field. Poisonous perennial grass in the meadow

Giant hogweed flower. Shallow DOF. Summer 2013 Cornwall UK.

Small white inflorescence of this famous highly poisonous plant

The poisonous plant chaerophyllum temulum grows in the wild

Wild Angelica or Forest Angelica also called Herbe aux anges or Sylvestre Angelica

marsh cicuta close-up, herb milestone, herbaceous marsh plant

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