Cicuta virosa, the cowbane or northern water hemlock, is a poisonous species of Cicuta, native to northern and central Europe, northern Asia and northwestern North America.
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Is it poisonous?
Toxic. The note covers its whole genus. Water hemlock; cicutoxin, roots especially; among the most toxic plants in the northern hemisphere Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Apiales
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Cicuta
- Species
- Cicuta virosa
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