+1 very good contribution. Like you - I hadn't thought much about it. I will have to pay attention when hiking on CA trails. The plant is much more prolific than I imagined ... for some mistaken reason I always thought it was a short plant.
Registered: 08/17/09
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Loc: Central Oregon
Thanks Pete,
You will notice that the picture of wildflowers on my blog has a good ammount of poison hemlock in it. And I didn't know it at the time;will be more careful in the future.
I don't ever eat any plant that I can't buy in a store... (I'm a city kid who likes the outdoors)... but I found this rather interesting. I've heard of Hemlock in old stories, but didn't realize it was so big and was actually here in the U.S. I always thought it was a European plant.. I guess that's why the call it an invasive species.
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