Excerpt from The Poison Parsnip or Water Hemlock (Cicuta Occidentalis)
The leaves look somewhat like those of celery or the common parsnip. They are dark -green and glossy. The plant sends Up long branching stems from two to even five or six feet high, bearing numer ous ?attened clusters of tiny white ?owers.
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Excerpt from The Poison Parsnip or Water Hemlock (Cicuta Occidentalis): A Plant Deadly to Live Stock in Nevada
The leaves look somewhat like those of celery or the common parsnip. They are dark -green and glossy. The plant sends Up long branching stems from two to even five or six feet high, bearing numer ous flattened clusters of tiny white flowers.
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Excerpt from The Poison Parsnip or Water Hemlock (Cicuta Occidentalis): A Plant Deadly to Live Stock in Nevada
Figure 2. Flowers and Leaves of the Poison Parsnip. This is growing in the midst of a tangle of other vegetation in a swampy meadow.
From the days of the earliest settlements in Nevada the poison parsnip (water hemlock) has been known as a poisonous plant. Long before the white people came into the country its properties were known to the Indians, who used it 'as a means of suicide. The roots and the earliest green growth are violently poison-ous to all kinds Of live stock and every year cause losses of cattle, horses, and sheep. The greatest losses are Of cattle, perhaps largely because they are more frequently pastured where the plant is abundant.
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