The reason people are poisoning themselves with it is failure to discern it from popular lookalikes that are edible like queen Anne's lace, yarrow,wild fennel,and elderflower people are watching to many survival reality shows becoming entranced by them and then thinking they can just go do that themselves without any kind of training in edible wild plant identification
When I was growing up in NJ an entire family in my neighborhood died after a meal of hand-picked mushrooms that turned out not to be morels. They say if you forage for food, you should always keep some of it unprepared, to help the paramedics or coroner save time in their job basically.
TIP... If the ground is moistened first (like after a rain) the plant & roots can be pulled out more easily... Not pulled so easily when the ground is dry...
tip do not try to pull this up with bare skin exposed, and PROTECT YOUR EYES, this might be giant hogweed, also poisonous can cause lasting rashes and even blindness.
Good..but if they are all thus silly, I don't think they will know the plant or deal with safe ways of destroying anyway. This is natural for families that go on walks, don't do drugs, learn good plants and bad as just part of growing up. But I'm not American. In Oceania like swimming, it's part of devopment!
@@AHD2105 as it should be, but industrialization & corporate overlords turned our society’s common sense & connection to natural ways upside down. Actively made us ignorant so we would always be reliant on their products & way of living. You are blessed.
We had a bunch of it that started growing under our deck, when my kids were little. They’re right on how to handle it. And if the root breaks off, dig a little hole around it and pour straight vinegar (any kind) into the hole to kill the root.
Yes. And Queen Anne's lace has a full umbrella flower, with a maroon floret in the center. Unlike hemlock, wild carrot tends to prefer drier, well drained or even sandy soil.
It's all over the place in parts of California, especially on coastal wildlands. There are control efforts, but it comes back yearly. The purple stains on the stem are very distinctive. It won't kill you unless you eat a fair amount. Don't eat any wild plants unless you're 100% sure what it is. This is especially important for plants in the carrot family like this one- there are numerous roadside weeds with similar flowers, like wild carrot.
I wouldn't eat anything I found in the wild that looked like carrot. We have them all over in Minnesota. They don't always have noticeable distinctive purple markings.
Your right, it's all over California. Idaho too. It looks exactly like osha root. Probably why people are picking it. Osha has a smell of earth. Be careful people.
You are right. Never eat wild plants unless you really know what you are doing. Being an expert, I would never confuse hemlock with wild carrot (aka: Queen Anne's lace).
I feel lucky to be alive - I was obsessed with Queen Anne's Lace as a kid and I was taught to look for the little dark flower nestled in the middle of all the little white flowers but I don't think anyone warned me about why. Somehow I managed to not come home draped in chains of hemlock.
I figured he meant worker shortages affecting roadside mowing by county or state crews, which would cut the plant down before it went to seed, thus curtailing its spread. In my area, the roadsides used to be mowed regularly, but now are very overgrown. The county can't get enough workers.
@@SixMiracles-uj1zp must be only Christian children because they were brainwashed to believe that god would protect them, and Nature says, "Hold my Beer."
Truth!! MOST kids. There are very few kids that will go outside and play and very few parents that will let them. It’s far to easy to plop them down in front of a tv or iPod in an a/c room. Who wants to go outside and watch kids play?
It's the parents job to take their asses outside, and to keep them from becoming terminally online. And let's be real, most parents are just as bad, if not worse with their phones.
Been around forever. Learn what the plant looks like and don’t eat it. Learn it’s look A-likes like wild carrot. They grow side by side here and none of us have ever been Poisoned. If you don’t know what a plant is, don’t eat it.
I can't speak for any place else, but I'm pretty sure I know why our roadsides are full of hemlock now. Until recent years, the road crews mowed the sides of the road 3 or 4 times a year. Very few big weeds like this had time to mature and seed. Now we count ourselves lucky if they mow twice. That means any seed that is dropped be it by passing hay trucks, combines, semis from other states or Mother Nature herself has a perfect spot to take up root. For the most part they are undisturbed, allowing invasive, unwanted plants free reign in a perfect spot.
Mowing doesn't solve your problem. If we mowed at a slightly higher height, we'd let more hardy shrubby perennials take over and hemlock would b pushed out. Try not to play ecologist without doing any research.
@@dillonbledsoe7680 You're probably right, but I'm not gonna chill until experts are respected and the uneducated people on zoning comittees and city planning projects learn how to coordinate with nature. The earth is literally on a crash course with destruction. You can take your polite niceties and leave them outside on the blacktop to self-combust.
@@trenomas1 I just know they weren't there when it was mowed regularly. I think it grows from seeds and if you never let it seed, that has to help at least a some.
This has been in Skagit since at least the 90's and probably well before that. I was warned about it at a summer camp in '91. The camp nurse kept a sample in a bag to help her ID it if a kid ate any.
It's been around for as long as I can remember. Never knew it was poisonous until just recently. I used to cut it and include it in wildflower bouquets all the time. Wouldn't dream of eating ANY wild plant or weed without knowing 100% what it was that I was consuming. I don't understand why anyone would. 🤔
I found 2 of these intermixed with my carrots. I thought It was a carrot, so I harvested it, but it's smell made me sick so I looked it up. I came close to joining Socrates. Be careful!
so let's remove a plant that's been on this earth forever... instead of not putting random plants in our mouth... if we pad the world enough it will be a cell.
I teach my kids what plants are poisonus and what plants are safe. To have respect for nature and to give back if they take anything.They also know that poisonus plants play a role in nature to and what plants are invasive and need to be cut back. To many people kill plants thats are good for us because they are scared. You would be surprised just how many edible weeds that grow in your yard that is really good for you and tast good to. Hemlock is an invasive poisonus plant. There are some that look like it to that have saved lives as well. Unfortunately because of this people just cut all of it down. I used to find yarrow all over my naborhood and in the fields. And now its just gone. I did find queen annes lace though but even that is few and far. In my opinion if you dont know what it is dont touch it and please don't put it in your mouth. A lil boy 7yr old in my community ate a garden flower that was poisonus and ended up in the hospital. So what did most people do. They started ripping them out if their gardens. Not knowing the bees really love that particular flower. It was a beautiful flower. There really wasn't a need for everone to just kill them. When all it would of taken is either teaching the child not to eat outside plants or teach him what the plants are.
@@aleciawimer8506 yes there are a ton of books out there. The city has books of local plants GRDA has books of plants for your region. Also you can look up books for your area on line. Herbal books give more details about about plants. You could also go to your local library as well.
Thank you for saying this. We just had a herb walk on our 50 acre homestead that local people could sign up for and for 15$they got to walk the property with an amazing local herbalist that taught them how to identify and use many of our native plants growing here in NorCal.
There’s a similar type of plant here in north Texas,white clusters of flowers and the seeds are like Velcro. They stick to every thing and number in the thousands!
Got 'em here in Ks also, "stick tites". Don't know the proper name but very similar looking to Q.A.L. The gas trimmers' airborne particles from this weed get your attn... if they land in your eye. The sock is the most common victim, occasionally lethal to them when new and fuzzy
Around where I live it's so common I don't even notice it anymore. Not too much to worry about honestly, just make sure your children and pets aren't grabbing and eating things they're not supposed to
Oh please, stop using “big words” like “hyperbole” in a vain attempt to appear smart. There are many different types of hemlock and this wild variety is spreading more because of climate changes and lack of control measures.
This weed has been out there my entire life I'm 64 years old I've always seen these I grew up in the country this is nothing new and they've never hurt anyone that I've ever known.
@@TheSouthernLady777 there are a lot of poisonous weeds that's why people don't eat weeds there are a lot of poisonous plants but people still have them in their homes they just don't eat them. it's known that they were poisonous they've been here forever it's pretty stupid to eat them
@@user-ll5oj4eo1g there is always a lot they grow alongside the roads and the ditches they've been here for years my great grandmother used to call them Queen ann lace or Spanish lace. it's just a weed it's not meant for consumption it's never been a problem before
The main issue is the lack of thorough research being done before and after foraging. Always triple check what you picked is what you thought you picked until you’ve mastered foraging. Even then, it’s good to double verify your findings, so overconfidence doesn’t screw you over.
Despite serious safety concerns, hemlock leaves, root, and seeds are used to make medicine. It is used for breathing problems including bronchitis, whooping cough, and asthma; and for painful conditions including teething in children, swollen and painful joints, and cramps. Hemlock is also used for anxiety and mania.📚✅
@@lsivtsov yeah the problem though might be that people touch things without thinking. These plants are both dangerous and good. Most people are too far removed from the land to know. But so many things look like other things. Takes expertise.
This is why people need to build their skills with plant identification. I know it seems silly and hippyish but seriously though this plant along with several others are destroying our environment and changing the ecology. Let's not forget about hogweed either.
@@theobserver9131 No, OP is correct. These plants are extremely invasive. They increase dramatically in number each year, choking out native plants, poisoning native animals, and eventually destroying the environment as it once was.
Recently a friend of mine in Ohio said it’s growing wild along one of the public bicycles trails. It was growing in her yard too and she didn’t know what it was. It nearly killed her.
I found this plant growing in my back yard in Southern Ontario Canada. At first I wondered what it was and the more I researched the more worried I got. It's a nice dark green looking plant with pretty leaves and flowers. I grabbed my shovel and dug it up before it went to seed. I threw it in the trash. This is all while wearing rubber gloves. The plant didn't return but keeping a lookout for its possible return.
This news agency did a good job bringing this issue to awareness. What is a true public service is offering a class on identification of this plant. Please offer this.
Yo, Hemlock is SUPER dangerous. Put a little of it in someone's drink and they're (probably) dunzoh, sunzoh. It's important that the world remains vigilant about what is edible, what isn't, and what is absolutely, shockingly lethal. 😳 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
@Sincere Imagine how early, ancient humans ended up "testing" to see if something was legit to eat: "OG! YOU EAT NEW RED BERRY. IF TUMMY HURT LATER, WE TRY HELP." Hours later, Og's funeral was organized. lol 😳🙄😵🤮☠️🔥
@@Novastar.SaberCombat You are actually onto something. Like virtually all organisms on Earth, the ability to survive was due to trial and error. What was considered safe to eat was passed down from generation to generation. If someone fell ill from eating something, it would then be avoided. It's not all that different from what we have today. If you found a poisonous berry, looked it up on Google, and saw it was poisonous, you probably wouldn't eat it, would you? That knowledge on Google still came about from trial and error - how we humans found out long ago that that berry would make us sick.
Don't be silly you need math so many times in so many places in your adult life. I work in common construction and I use math all the time. I have a better job because I know how to do math it pays me to know things. It isn't rocket science.
Scary and don’t be embarrassed because you don’t know what you don’t know until it’s too late. I’m an avid gardener and I wouldn’t have known how dangerous it was if I hadn’t been told.
It looks almost exactly like Queen Ann's Lace or wild carrot. Queen Ann's Lace has fuzz on the stem, hemlock is smooth and also as he pointed out the purple coloration.
I am noticing lots of Tansy Ragwort growing around West Bremerton on my walks. Poisonous as well but not on the same level as Hemlock. I check all the Queen Ann Lace types and haven't found any Hemlock around here. I pulled up more than a dozen Tansy in the ditches in the last couple days. There are 4 signs of Hemlock.The lack of hair on the stem,purple on the stem, root doesn't smell like a carrot when broken,doesn't have tendrils under the flower head. Wild Carrot can cause rashes in some individuals so wear gloves while handling it as well as many wild plants.
America probably has just as many invasive species now as indigenous species. The Hawaiian islands have lost more than 70% of its native species of plants and wildlife. The everglades are being lost to pythons, iguanas, hogs and dozens of unstoppable introduced plants and trees. There’s not a state in this country that isn’t battling an invasion plant or a feral or introduced animal. The founding fathers should have cemented laws into the constitution forbidding the importation of these things and the punishment should be harsh.
Oh My Goodness! You garden and don't know the difference between Queen Ann's Lace (wild carrot) and Hemlock you should NOT garden !!!!!!! help is needed for those with low comprehension
Carol not everyone knows that it’s poisonous whether they are gardeners or not. You shouldn’t be so quick to assume or judge. Just like the hemlock negativity spreads the same. I hope you have a blessed day.
Toxic plants are more common than most people think. The average person with some kind of landscaping in their yard probably has a toxic plant. Vinca vine, hellebores, daphodils, etc
😱 This plant grows pretty much everywhere in Southern Ontario too. As well as the harmless Queen Ann's Lace, the one with the purple tear drop in the middle of the lacey white flower.
I remember a friend touched some a few years ago by accident when it was growing in the middle of a pile of Bush, luckily he was ok after a trip to the ER. This stuff is ridiculously dangerous
Wish they would have added why not to burn or compost it. Composting I can guess would make the compost poisonous. But sending it off to the dump where the seeds can germinate can't be a good idea.
I know the plant identification apps are still not perfect but who in their right mind would risk eating that without checking? I know it's close looking to another plant used for teas but seriously... In your Junior High science class didn't they tell you how to test it out *before* do anything drastic like touch or consume it?
We have it now in the Adirondacks of NY ...I brushed up next to it with my arm and the itch and pain stayed with me for a couple of days .....Never seen anything like it!!!
It’s not a worker shortage, it’s an ‘employers who pay enough to barely survive’ shortage. Pay me enough to not need SNAP, rental or healthcare assistance, and I’ll work for you.
Hornets, scorpions, and other things could also be deadly if eaten. Darwin mentions this in one of his books. Amateur journalist can't spell "ACROSS " in the thumbnail image!
What kid eats a random plant on the side of the road or walking pathes. Yes it looks very similar to a herb we grow at home. Know you should never eat random plants unless you know its safe and doesn't have any deadly look alikes in the area.
Queen's Lace or wild carrot has hairy stems, similar to tomato stems. "The Queen has hairy legs" That's how you know it isn't Hemlock.
Really, thank-you!!!😄😄😄
Thank You for that SIMPLE way of discernment from poisonous and not!
Also in the center of the queen ... is a purple dot! 💜
Thank u!
@@brytoto1902 not always so dont go by that!
The reason people are poisoning themselves with it is failure to discern it from popular lookalikes that are edible like queen Anne's lace, yarrow,wild fennel,and elderflower people are watching to many survival reality shows becoming entranced by them and then thinking they can just go do that themselves without any kind of training in edible wild plant identification
They run around naked and eat whatever they find.
@@jerrinepaiva3835 lol on naked and afraid. But "Alone" is a far better show.
Those who think there’s anything real about “reality shows” are asking for all kinds of trouble.
Same thing happens with wild mushrooms 🍄
When I was growing up in NJ an entire family in my neighborhood died after a meal of hand-picked mushrooms that turned out not to be morels. They say if you forage for food, you should always keep some of it unprepared, to help the paramedics or coroner save time in their job basically.
TIP... If the ground is moistened first (like after a rain) the plant & roots can be pulled out more easily... Not pulled so easily when the ground is dry...
Spoken like a true farmer/gardener. 😎
tip do not try to pull this up with bare skin exposed, and PROTECT YOUR EYES, this might be giant hogweed, also poisonous can cause lasting rashes and even blindness.
Good..but if they are all thus silly, I don't think they will know the plant or deal with safe ways of destroying anyway. This is natural for families that go on walks, don't do drugs, learn good plants and bad as just part of growing up. But I'm not American. In Oceania like swimming, it's part of devopment!
@@AHD2105 as it should be, but industrialization & corporate overlords turned our society’s common sense & connection to natural ways upside down. Actively made us ignorant so we would always be reliant on their products & way of living. You are blessed.
Don't eat what you can't identity
We had a bunch of it that started growing under our deck, when my kids were little. They’re right on how to handle it. And if the root breaks off, dig a little hole around it and pour straight vinegar (any kind) into the hole to kill the root.
Oooo thanks for that tip!
Yeah thanks for using vinegar and not something that's going to stay in the ground forever like these horrible pos
I’ve struggled with something looks like this for 34 years now
I’m going to try vinegar
The riots do go down two feet
We just got a bunch of nasty plants growing in the property. Thanks for the help with the vinegar tip
Oh ive never heard of this method but you better believe ill be remembering it!
Pro tip, don’t eat plants you don’t know.
This is what happens when what we NEED to learn is taken out of our academic system. 🤦♀️
They replaced all of that with ridiculous "progressive" garbage. This is why you're better off homeschooling as hard as that may be.
@@derealized797 Totally agree!
It's beautiful. It grows all around were I live and in my 40 plus years have never heard of anyone eating it. How ridiculous
It is confused with wild carrot/ queen Anne's lace.
Remember "the queen has hairy legs" queen Anne's lace has a hairy stem, hemlock does not.
Yes. And Queen Anne's lace has a full umbrella flower, with a maroon floret in the center. Unlike hemlock, wild carrot tends to prefer drier, well drained or even sandy soil.
Thank You for that SIMPLE way of discernment between the poisonous and not!
I love this as a woman with really really hairy legs xD
Why would you make a salad with a plant you do not know.
It's all over the place in parts of California, especially on coastal wildlands. There are control efforts, but it comes back yearly. The purple stains on the stem are very distinctive. It won't kill you unless you eat a fair amount. Don't eat any wild plants unless you're 100% sure what it is. This is especially important for plants in the carrot family like this one- there are numerous roadside weeds with similar flowers, like wild carrot.
I wouldn't eat anything I found in the wild that looked like carrot.
We have them all over in Minnesota. They don't always have noticeable distinctive purple markings.
I've eaten quite a bit of it in salads and it didn't hurt me.
Your right, it's all over California.
Idaho too. It looks exactly like osha root. Probably why people are picking it. Osha has a smell of earth. Be careful people.
You are right. Never eat wild plants unless you really know what you are doing. Being an expert, I would never confuse hemlock with wild carrot (aka: Queen Anne's lace).
I think i see this plant here in new england...i'll have to add that plant identifyer app to see if its the same one.
I feel lucky to be alive - I was obsessed with Queen Anne's Lace as a kid and I was taught to look for the little dark flower nestled in the middle of all the little white flowers but I don't think anyone warned me about why. Somehow I managed to not come home draped in chains of hemlock.
Some of the QAL in the US doesn't have the red flower too. Just to make it harder
Ditto!!! I used to pick Queen Anne’s lace to put in vases.
Worker shortage has nothing to do with it.
workers dont pull that
I figured he meant worker shortages affecting roadside mowing by county or state crews, which would cut the plant down before it went to seed, thus curtailing its spread. In my area, the roadsides used to be mowed regularly, but now are very overgrown. The county can't get enough workers.
Deadly for children?
Yeah, if they ever went outside.
If they liked eating vegetables.
They're too busy glued to their iPad.
Not all kids
The comment does not say all kids.
@@SixMiracles-uj1zp must be only Christian children because they were brainwashed to believe that god would protect them, and Nature says, "Hold my Beer."
Truth!! MOST kids. There are very few kids that will go outside and play and very few parents that will let them. It’s far to easy to plop them down in front of a tv or iPod in an a/c room. Who wants to go outside and watch kids play?
It's the parents job to take their asses outside, and to keep them from becoming terminally online. And let's be real, most parents are just as bad, if not worse with their phones.
Thank you for reporting this.
Been around forever. Learn what the plant looks like and don’t eat it. Learn it’s look A-likes like wild carrot. They grow side by side here and none of us have ever been Poisoned. If you don’t know what a plant is, don’t eat it.
'Queen Anne has hairy legs' as in Queen Anne's Lace (aka wild carrot). Hemlock has a smooth stem.
I can't speak for any place else, but I'm pretty sure I know why our roadsides are full of hemlock now. Until recent years, the road crews mowed the sides of the road 3 or 4 times a year. Very few big weeds like this had time to mature and seed. Now we count ourselves lucky if they mow twice. That means any seed that is dropped be it by passing hay trucks, combines, semis from other states or Mother Nature herself has a perfect spot to take up root. For the most part they are undisturbed, allowing invasive, unwanted plants free reign in a perfect spot.
Mowing doesn't solve your problem. If we mowed at a slightly higher height, we'd let more hardy shrubby perennials take over and hemlock would b pushed out.
Try not to play ecologist without doing any research.
@@trenomas1 that was just there opinion try not to be such a hater u ain't helping anyone out with smerky remarks
@@dillonbledsoe7680
You're probably right, but I'm not gonna chill until experts are respected and the uneducated people on zoning comittees and city planning projects learn how to coordinate with nature.
The earth is literally on a crash course with destruction. You can take your polite niceties and leave them outside on the blacktop to self-combust.
@@trenomas1 I just know they weren't there when it was mowed regularly. I think it grows from seeds and if you never let it seed, that has to help at least a some.
This has been in Skagit since at least the 90's and probably well before that. I was warned about it at a summer camp in '91. The camp nurse kept a sample in a bag to help her ID it if a kid ate any.
It's all over the United States. It was all over my farm in stanwood and its all over my farm in Wisconsin.
It's been around for centuries. We don't pay attention to history. What was it that grandma said? Nobody pays attention.
It's been around for as long as I can remember. Never knew it was poisonous until just recently.
I used to cut it and include it in wildflower bouquets all the time.
Wouldn't dream of eating ANY wild plant or weed without knowing 100% what it was that I was consuming.
I don't understand why anyone would. 🤔
Me too. I used to see it all the time growing up while playing outside, or in the woods by my house m
new panic is needed!
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@@Tata-iu3fy Same. 😊
@@t.r.l.4377 Right!?😂
I found 2 of these intermixed with my carrots. I thought It was a carrot, so I harvested it, but it's smell made me sick so I looked it up. I came close to joining Socrates. Be careful!
First I heard of smell...
so let's remove a plant that's been on this earth forever... instead of not putting random plants in our mouth... if we pad the world enough it will be a cell.
I teach my kids what plants are poisonus and what plants are safe. To have respect for nature and to give back if they take anything.They also know that poisonus plants play a role in nature to and what plants are invasive and need to be cut back. To many people kill plants thats are good for us because they are scared. You would be surprised just how many edible weeds that grow in your yard that is really good for you and tast good to. Hemlock is an invasive poisonus plant. There are some that look like it to that have saved lives as well. Unfortunately because of this people just cut all of it down. I used to find yarrow all over my naborhood and in the fields. And now its just gone. I did find queen annes lace though but even that is few and far. In my opinion if you dont know what it is dont touch it and please don't put it in your mouth. A lil boy 7yr old in my community ate a garden flower that was poisonus and ended up in the hospital. So what did most people do. They started ripping them out if their gardens. Not knowing the bees really love that particular flower. It was a beautiful flower. There really wasn't a need for everone to just kill them. When all it would of taken is either teaching the child not to eat outside plants or teach him what the plants are.
Smart!
Is there a book you could recommend for this?
@@aleciawimer8506 yes there are a ton of books out there. The city has books of local plants GRDA has books of plants for your region. Also you can look up books for your area on line. Herbal books give more details about about plants. You could also go to your local library as well.
Thank you for saying this. We just had a herb walk on our 50 acre homestead that local people could sign up for and for 15$they got to walk the property with an amazing local herbalist that taught them how to identify and use many of our native plants growing here in NorCal.
@@aleciawimer8506 go online many free books and guides the more detailed description the better but if unsure leave it alone is always a good rule
These are - and always have been - everywhere nearby land in the Netherlands.
They only remove these near horses
Well, if you eat hemlock, thats darwinism. Survival skills.
Survival of the most knowledgeable
Sociopath.
I don't know if you have kids, but if you do, you should change your attitude. 90% of taking care of kids is keeping them from killing themselves.
There’s a similar type of plant here in north Texas,white clusters of flowers and the seeds are like Velcro. They stick to every thing and number in the thousands!
Got 'em here in Ks also, "stick tites". Don't know the proper name but very similar looking to Q.A.L. The gas trimmers' airborne particles from this weed get your attn... if they land in your eye. The sock is the most common victim, occasionally lethal to them when new and fuzzy
Socrates' last words were "I drank WHAT??"
Around where I live it's so common I don't even notice it anymore. Not too much to worry about honestly, just make sure your children and pets aren't grabbing and eating things they're not supposed to
Agreed!! It grows on my property too. My kids eat nothing without checking first. I just yank it out when I see it. People make a big deal.
Hemlock has been around here since the beginning of time. There’s no emergency.
This kind of hyperbole gets old.
Oh please, stop using “big words” like “hyperbole” in a vain attempt to appear smart. There are many different types of hemlock and this wild variety is spreading more because of climate changes and lack of control measures.
This weed has been out there my entire life I'm 64 years old I've always seen these I grew up in the country this is nothing new and they've never hurt anyone that I've ever known.
It's a crock! Everything they tell us is the opposite of truth. I'm glad there are others wise enough to call out the BS
There's a lot this year, A LOT.
@@TheSouthernLady777 it's a weed it's been growing in ditches for as long as I can remember why would anyone eat that
@@TheSouthernLady777 there are a lot of poisonous weeds that's why people don't eat weeds there are a lot of poisonous plants but people still have them in their homes they just don't eat them. it's known that they were poisonous they've been here forever it's pretty stupid to eat them
@@user-ll5oj4eo1g there is always a lot they grow alongside the roads and the ditches they've been here for years my great grandmother used to call them Queen ann lace or Spanish lace. it's just a weed it's not meant for consumption it's never been a problem before
The main issue is the lack of thorough research being done before and after foraging. Always triple check what you picked is what you thought you picked until you’ve mastered foraging. Even then, it’s good to double verify your findings, so overconfidence doesn’t screw you over.
Despite serious safety concerns, hemlock leaves, root, and seeds are used to make medicine. It is used for breathing problems including bronchitis, whooping cough, and asthma; and for painful conditions including teething in children, swollen and painful joints, and cramps. Hemlock is also used for anxiety and mania.📚✅
All plants are food or medicine.
Maybe that's the reason they're scaring people in getting rid of it because it's very good for people. They've done same thing for comfrey.
@@lsivtsov yeah the problem though might be that people touch things without thinking. These plants are both dangerous and good. Most people are too far removed from the land to know. But so many things look like other things. Takes expertise.
@@angelinimartini not the plants fault
Which is exactly why they want you to stay away from it. Big pharma may have started the Opium epidemic, but that's no reason to not trust them.
ALWAYS something, isn't it? Love to keep everyone living in fear!! Wonder how did our ancestors ever make it without the media???
This is why people need to build their skills with plant identification. I know it seems silly and hippyish but seriously though this plant along with several others are destroying our environment and changing the ecology. Let's not forget about hogweed either.
"destroying our environment" is a silly exaggeration. Changing the ecology is more accurate.
Hyperbole doesn't help.
@@theobserver9131 No, OP is correct. These plants are extremely invasive. They increase dramatically in number each year, choking out native plants, poisoning native animals, and eventually destroying the environment as it once was.
Recently a friend of mine in Ohio said it’s growing wild along one of the public bicycles trails. It was growing in her yard too and she didn’t know what it was. It nearly killed her.
I found this plant growing in my back yard in Southern Ontario Canada. At first I wondered what it was and the more I researched the more worried I got. It's a nice dark green looking plant with pretty leaves and flowers. I grabbed my shovel and dug it up before it went to seed. I threw it in the trash. This is all while wearing rubber gloves. The plant didn't return but keeping a lookout for its possible return.
This news agency did a good job bringing this issue to awareness. What is a true public service is offering a class on identification of this plant. Please offer this.
Make a great home protection plant around your windows.
You are hilarious 😂
You expect the burglars to stop & take a bite???
that grows on my land the stem that he called purple splotches may coalesce and the stock appears red in some stages of growth.
Thank you for warning people King 5
Yo, Hemlock is SUPER dangerous. Put a little of it in someone's drink and they're (probably) dunzoh, sunzoh.
It's important that the world remains vigilant about what is edible, what isn't, and what is absolutely, shockingly lethal. 😳
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Might I ask what dunzoh, sunzoh is? 🤔
@@srvntlilly "done, son" I think
@@ReapingTheHarvest Thank you. 🙂
@Sincere Imagine how early, ancient humans ended up "testing" to see if something was legit to eat:
"OG! YOU EAT NEW RED BERRY. IF TUMMY HURT LATER, WE TRY HELP."
Hours later, Og's funeral was organized. lol 😳🙄😵🤮☠️🔥
@@Novastar.SaberCombat You are actually onto something. Like virtually all organisms on Earth, the ability to survive was due to trial and error. What was considered safe to eat was passed down from generation to generation. If someone fell ill from eating something, it would then be avoided. It's not all that different from what we have today. If you found a poisonous berry, looked it up on Google, and saw it was poisonous, you probably wouldn't eat it, would you? That knowledge on Google still came about from trial and error - how we humans found out long ago that that berry would make us sick.
Could you imagine if we learned how to identify this in school? Math that were never gonna need is apparently more important…
I'm really lucky to have had my dad. He took me camping and taught me how and what to forage, amongst many, many other things.
Don't be silly you need math so many times in so many places in your adult life. I work in common construction and I use math all the time. I have a better job because I know how to do math it pays me to know things. It isn't rocket science.
You need math in every day life Kaleb. How are you going to follow a recipe or build anything without math?
@@loribabich4839 much of the math I learned has nothing to do with the real world. That is what I’m taking about
@@LiberPater777 it is a very important skill. I’m just learning now how useful many plants and mushrooms are.
This has come up out of nowhere along roadsides in OK this yr where it hadn't been in past.
Wow. Don’t compost or burn it
They're everywhere in my county, in CA. Practically naturalized. No reports of poisoning. What are people doing overthere?
Holy moley I always thought those were wild carrots! The roots smell like carrots
please don't garden
Scary and don’t be embarrassed because you don’t know what you don’t know until it’s too late. I’m an avid gardener and I wouldn’t have known how dangerous it was if I hadn’t been told.
Just realize there are wild carrots, but the hemlock has smooth stems, & research before deciding to eat wild stuff!
You are right. They do smell like carrots. And the people who were unfortunate enough to eat them said that the tap root tasted like parsnip.
I've heard they bleed orange. Haven't proven that though
Natural surroundings...hey, let's use nature to needlessly keep the fear alarm bells ringing.
It looks almost exactly like Queen Ann's Lace or wild carrot. Queen Ann's Lace has fuzz on the stem, hemlock is smooth and also as he pointed out the purple coloration.
I hope this doesn’t grow in Florida. I have enough to worry about with poisonous toads, snails and snakes.
...and your fellow Florida residents!
This plant is found in every state
Yes, I live in the wacked state of FL also!
Oh my
The plant is native to North America.
I am noticing lots of Tansy Ragwort growing around West Bremerton on my walks. Poisonous as well but not on the same level as Hemlock. I check all the Queen Ann Lace types and haven't found any Hemlock around here. I pulled up more than a dozen Tansy in the ditches in the last couple days. There are 4 signs of Hemlock.The lack of hair on the stem,purple on the stem, root doesn't smell like a carrot when broken,doesn't have tendrils under the flower head. Wild Carrot can cause rashes in some individuals so wear gloves while handling it as well as many wild plants.
Hopefully there'll be a vaccine
Yeah an emergency experimental vaccine? No way will the smart people take that.
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Stuff's been around Washington since I was a kid. I'm 57 now!
it grows everywhere... just dont ruin everything else just for 1 plant...
I fight this every year in my back yard. It's rampant everywhere in Illinois
Rule number 1: don't eat something if you aren't 100% sure what it is
Hemlock - beautiful nightmare 👻☠️😱
Those plants are everywhere in Illinois
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what!?"
Queen Anne's Lace flower has a small purple dot in the center that can help distinguish from hemlock.
America probably has just as many invasive species now as indigenous species. The Hawaiian islands have lost more than 70% of its native species of plants and wildlife. The everglades are being lost to pythons, iguanas, hogs and dozens of unstoppable introduced plants and trees. There’s not a state in this country that isn’t battling an invasion plant or a feral or introduced animal. The founding fathers should have cemented laws into the constitution forbidding the importation of these things and the punishment should be harsh.
Bellingham dude mistakingly are the hemlock at least ten years ago. NOT part of current "outbreak."
Thank you sir!
This stuff is EVERYWHERE here in southeast ohio!! Miserable stuff to deal with.
Oh no!! Now its deadly plants..eveybody run!!
Lockdowns are the solution... Outside is death
This stuff is growing out of control in the hills of Vallejo, CA and around the Bay Area also.
They should name that salad a “Socrates Salad”
Oh My Goodness! You garden and don't know the difference between Queen Ann's Lace (wild carrot) and Hemlock you should NOT garden !!!!!!! help is needed for those with low comprehension
Carol not everyone knows that it’s poisonous whether they are gardeners or not. You shouldn’t be so quick to assume or judge. Just like the hemlock negativity spreads the same. I hope you have a blessed day.
Toxic plants are more common than most people think. The average person with some kind of landscaping in their yard probably has a toxic plant. Vinca vine, hellebores, daphodils, etc
That's on the side of the road on North Quincy ...
Ave/Abinton
when I go down for breakfast!
Stay away from the smooth branches the harmless plant stems kinda resemble the stems on a squash or cucumber plant. They're spiky and almost thorny.
😱 This plant grows pretty much everywhere in Southern Ontario too.
As well as the harmless Queen Ann's Lace, the one with the purple tear drop in the middle of the lacey white flower.
Here in Michigan, hemlock is native and can be found wherever open fields can be found.
Can we plant some around congress and the Whitehouse?
We would've known that 100yrs ago...
The haircuts and clothes looks like this was possibly filmed from 1998-2004
LMAO!!! It's always been here. Always been here
That is so weird…there is a plant that is lower to the ground that looks like Hemlock and is edible but this plant is found in New Mexico too.
What the hell, Ron burgundy just up roated that entire plant
But he had very safe surgical gloves on!
Finding it in northeast Ohio also. Found it last year. Came back twice as bad this year. People need to know about this stuff
I remember a friend touched some a few years ago by accident when it was growing in the middle of a pile of Bush, luckily he was ok after a trip to the ER. This stuff is ridiculously dangerous
*Socrates: Oh please, it isnt that bad...*
Yeah hemlock is poisonous hence the name the hemlock society of course they're prolly talking about the tree 🎄 which is poisonous too
I think Hemlock is confused with Yarrow they both look similar ones good ones poisonous
Where did it originate? Here in Canada we've been inundated with wild parsnip and giant hogweed. Both cause serious burns. It is invasive
Thank God these kind of people still exist somewhere in 2022.
Wish they would have added why not to burn or compost it. Composting I can guess would make the compost poisonous. But sending it off to the dump where the seeds can germinate can't be a good idea.
The smoke is very toxic and can make you sick or die. If you compost it your compost pile will become a field of it.
I know the plant identification apps are still not perfect but who in their right mind would risk eating that without checking?
I know it's close looking to another plant used for teas but seriously... In your Junior High science class didn't they tell you how to test it out *before* do anything drastic like touch or consume it?
Oh my god none of those people mentioned are even in Skagit county, that’s how tiny and unimportant our county is
Goodness me scary for families.
We have it now in the Adirondacks of NY ...I brushed up next to it with my arm and the itch and pain stayed with me for a couple of days .....Never seen anything like it!!!
Here it's everywhere thriving this season!
Why in the world do they not say where "Skagit" county is? Idiocracy? This plant is all over the place btw.
It’s not a worker shortage, it’s an ‘employers who pay enough to barely survive’ shortage. Pay me enough to not need SNAP, rental or healthcare assistance, and I’ll work for you.
"What's that? I don't know. Let's try eating it!"
People need to stop foraging and head to a food bank. They will give free food under almost any circumstances in Peirce (where I live)and King county.
Hornets, scorpions, and other things could also be deadly if eaten. Darwin mentions this in one of his books. Amateur journalist can't spell "ACROSS " in the thumbnail image!
I love eating scorpions. And road kill.
What kid eats a random plant on the side of the road or walking pathes.
Yes it looks very similar to a herb we grow at home.
Know you should never eat random plants unless you know its safe and doesn't have any deadly look alikes in the area.
Thumps down,,,
Info 2 scare u.
Where did it come from...
Who took it here.?
...and life gets more exciting with each passing day...🎶🎶
Useless fear porn to entertain the sleepy masses