@@rebel1187 There should be an introduction to these plants in grade school and then a reminder every year after that. Growing up In NY we were constantly warned about the yew shrubs (with their gooey red berries) planted as hedges EVERYWHERE (way back when)... And, in CA the poisonous oleander trees are ubiquitous along the highways, streets, and yards. But I don't recall any formal teachings in the classrooms. It was the parents and teachers warning us offhandedly, and then the smart kids passed the lessons on to their less-aware friends whenever needed. I'm pretty sure the kid across the street saved my life a couple of times. I was always chewing on wild plants.
When I was younger I used it as a straw. What happened is my heartbeat went over 300 according to the EMT sitting in the back of the ambulance with me. My chest started hurting. I told him and he looked very worried and said you don't want to have a heart attack until we get you to the hospital. I said man, I'm trying. Now mind you all I did is make a straw out of it and pretend I was sipping through it. Basically touched it to my lips. And handled it. Almost killed me.
This is so frightening. I used to pull up queen Ann's lace all the time. For bouquet or just to play with it. I didn't know of poison hemlock. A month or so ago a post on FB popped up in a gardening group about a young girl and her encounter ( just touching the plant!!!) with poison hemlock. She swelled up in hives and went into anaphylaxis and the poor young child almost died. She survived but the pictures of her where terrible. So thank you for making this video. People have to know how to spot poison plants even though they may think it is a common weed!
@healthyfitmom I picked this plant as a child also, never ate any, but just like you I thought oh pretty flowers... I see it all over in the state I live in.
Lived a remote cabin that was made vacant when the former occupant died as a result of ingesting water hemlock. Was told by a member of his family that "he died very violently ill".
I've been learning &foraging for 5 years. I've watched a lot of videos, follow all the well-known herbalist and non have addressed this plant as thoroughly as you. TY!
It’s incredible just how fragile we humans actually are. I have always aired on the side of caution with wild edibles. Unless I am absolutely positive about it, I never risk it. Thanks for sharing this information. It truly is information that could save a life.
Hey not correcting ya to be a d*ck. I just figure you may appreciate knowing is all so you don't get someone who actually gets all egotistical about it at you sometime. Its "erred" on the side of caution! Erred meaning like if you are going to make an error you prefer to lean towards one error or choice then the other. "to be especially careful rather than taking a risk or making a mistake" . Its a common error! Hope you are well! A lot of us hear 'aired' as kids and just get kinda stuck in the misunderstood hearing of it. Much like any 'egg corn' word.
That was really helpful. I had never heard of water hemlock. It is really great to learn how to tell the difference between that and queen anne’s lace. Great to know about activated charcoal.
Queens Ann lace grows shorter The plant talked about here can get about 5,, feet tall at times. I used to see it allot. My brother and I used to hike all the time and I remember seeing this plant growing. We were always pulling plants off and sticking them in our mouths. Especially sassafras we knew what we were handling, but that could have been fatal. We were always loafing around in the woods by ourselves. I don't think that our family knew about this plant either.
@@notmyworld44 Yes it usually has a dark spot in the centre of the umbel but in my experience not always. It always has - as well as the hairy legs - little fronds that look almost like another green flower stuck on the underside of the umbel.
When hunting for native plants around a local pond, i looked up the most toxic plants beforehand to ID them. There is water hemlock in areas so i knew about it. It's a town pond with a walking trail and people fish there. I feel obligated to report this to the parks department to protect unsuspecting people. They should also post laminated charts of toxic plants so people can be educated. Many have their children with them. When i was a child I played in woods and fields before the housing developments and always picked something flowering to bring to my mother. I never thought anything to be so painfully crippling and fatal back then. This video made me so much more aware.
Maybe, next time, just take a spray bottle of Round-Up with you and kill the weed. That method is faster and more reliable then reporting it ANY parks department. If you spray it, it won't seed anymore and it just withers away. Forever.
So glad I watched this. Recently starting foraging and been doing 'nibble tests' ..see if my lips tingle, go numb etc.. No more nibble testing for me!!! 😬 Thank you.. 🙏
NEVER nibble something to "test" it! Purchase a book with photographs of poisonous plants, so you can SEE what they look like. If you are not absolutely sure it is safe to eat, don't touch it, just pass it by.
Poison Hemlock. Story of hiker, in shorts & boots hiking thru mountainous region. Walked through a large area covered in this plant. Became neuro toxic & died alone, because of contact with leaves against his legs. Death determined by secondary toxicology. Plant poison was not addressed in 1st toxicology. Died so quickly that his lunch was undigested. He was a seasoned hiker.
Kay, that is like something out of a nightmare... l know some hikers... Dont know if they know....l see this weed by creek where l live.... Don't know if peop!e are aware there are things that are just deadly....it doesn't have to be a rattlesnake...
I don’t buy it. Like emergency rescue saying opioid can be transmitted via skin contact. When really it’s misinformation Where the only reason for response is panic attacks
Queen Anne's lace also has a single smaller dark purple flower in the center of the flowers. You can also pull out the plant and smell the root. If it smells like carrot, has a purple flower, and hairy stem... it's queen Anne's lace AKA Wild carrot.
No, poison hemlock (assuming water hemlock as well) have a carrot smell in their roots. And the dark purple flower is not always there. The best way to identify wild carrot is through the hairy and pithy stems.
I often carry activated charcoal and have used it for about 30 years. As a poultice it works great for any stings or bites from insects. For internal purposes, I find ginger ale best to mixt the powder for drinking. Caution, charcoal will stain clothing and carpets. On day adventures there have been times when I didn't have any with me and someone got stung by a bee. I made a fire to intentionally make charcoal, mashed it up and added water to make a poultice then applied it to the sting site. It removed the poison for about 15 minutes, then clean the poultice off and apply a new fresh one. It pulls the poison from the bee sting.
This planet about to BURN AND die. You all focusing on minor. Get right with God and make sure we have food and water...stop stupidity. This is minor. Gas prices rising and food shortages Our government wild Too much going on for this IGNORANT video. You can tell he is biblically BLIND
@@averagenobody6577 Actual smoking tobacco works too. I knew a guy who got stung quite often while surveying properties. He smoked, so he always had cigs with him. He'd break off a piece of the end of a fresh cig, spit on it if water wasn't available to dampen it, and apply it to the sting. Said it worked like a charm.
Thank you for sharing this. My young lads and I often walk the trails around here and see this stuff all the time. We try to avoid ticks in the tall weeds so avoid it but that is rather scary because we do often forage for wild foods. Good to know to avoid this and how to identify wild carrots
Another way to compare wild carrot vs hemlock is to look at the flowers. Water hemlock flower branch out into clusters, but carrots have a single large bunch. Another difference in the flowers is that the wild carrot have a single purple flower in the middle of the bunch of white flowers.
@SHAK3 N I was just not aware of it and being a novice to look alike poisonous plants it was amazing how easily it could be mistaken for the other. It was good to learn about!
@SHAK3 N it's been around and well known for hundreds of years. The new foraging spike is what I attribute poisonings to. People research edible plants online and have no real world experience
Just today, I saw what I thought was queen anne's lace growing in my garden bed. It had been there for a while and looked like it was making seeds. I pulled it. Nope it was an actual carrot, and I really hope the seeds are developed enough. I hung it to dry, so hopefully that will save the seeds. At least I knew it wasn't hemlock! Having seen a couple videos on the stuff, I think I can tell the difference now.
Have something like this growing all over the new property I just bought. Went to look and STILL can’t tell if it’s poisonous or not. So glad I didn’t make those “beautiful bouquets” when everything first started blooming. 😳
I have always traveled a lot and love the herbal world. I appreciate this reminder because I was checking out some last fall and cut the flowers for a vase. I couldn't remember what it was called, and I did get a slight rash on my fingers. I ALWAYS keep Activated Charcoal in my medicine chest and especially travel gear; always. Bentonite clay is also a good detox. A tip is that the activated charcoal can be a little hard on one's constitution, so I always follow it up with Yakult (or yogurt) to replace the good gut stuff. Activated charcoal is amazingly fast and effective. Great content. New subbie!
Spurge is fairly attractive. I let some go in my yard. After a couple of years it was taking over. Hubby pulled it and I carried it to the back of the yard, where we replanted it along the fence. I got a big rash, then did some reading, which says don’t get its latex juice on your skin. The next year I just brushed against one and got a rash. The ones we moved did not survive the move, and I use gloves and pull any I see. Fortunately it is pretty easy to get rid of, even though kind of invasive If left unchecked.
The difficulty in identifying plants for me, is the abundant use of names for the same plant. I also find most ID sources focus on the flower not the stems & leaves. I have a plant in the Umbelliferae / Apiaceae family which is still unknown to me, I have pulled it bare handed it’s not toxic topically, it is though, very invasive it takes over my red bergamot if allowed, unlike the Monarda which attracts Humming Birds & butterflies, this plant attracts flies. Your video is helpful in identifying Water Hemlock, thank you.
I subscribed after watching your video on 11 survival crops and then while watching this one’s opening, I thought, “wow, he really talks like Chad Kreuzer” and low and behold!! You’ve created a great channel and glad I ran across it, I’m glad you’re doing well and have moved to the country! Blessings!
We had hemlock growing under our apple tree in Washington state. Later found hemlock growing in parks and along trails. We also had deadly night shade.
I'm a ginger. We have very sensitive skin. I also grew up playing in the woods, hunting, camping, ect. Skin irritation was just part of it. (My grandmother used to put me in a bath of oatmeal, or bleach, lol) Anyway, I just recently bush hogged her property, and there is wild onion, wild garlic, and a bunch of hemlock. Just pretty much mowing the grass (4 ft tall) was terrible. She sold her old tractor that was an old row crop tractor, and got one of those little compact tractors. So, I was right in there with the stuff.
This is why it is so important to make your own activated charcoal and store lots of it on the homestead. Either super high temperature or chemical (never tried this one) are the methods I know of.
you could just buy a big 1/2 gallon carton of it from a pet supply place. it is used to polish aquarium water as it ADSORBS heavy metals into its atomic nooks and crannies.
@SHAK3 N lol I haven’t bought anything except the like and subscribe button- I don’t care what he makes from YT but I learn something that ENRICHES my life so I really don’t care!
This video is the epitome of why we should be taught these this gs in school or at home by parents. Schools are filling heads with nonsense today about how you fit into society. Society is collapsing if anyone took the time to pull their heads out of the sand to see they would know. Plants and animals, God given nature is what is truly important. Seek Jesus and grow food. God bless! 1st Rule of Foraging is to "Never put anything in your mouth that you don't know what it is"
@@terrirobinson2935 They are absolutely not. That’s a fact. You’re just parroting what certain ppl with an agenda are telling you. As someone very familiar with the education system, I know. And what you claim, again, is not true.
@@boondocks8002 No, but I am quite familiar with the education system. If by chance you want to bicker, look in to how private schools don’t have to report(make public), like pub ed, nor have to abide by the same standards. If not, sorry……but no, I am not.
Fantastic post young man THANK4SGIVING The active charcoal is a great choice, but redundancy is crucial in life threatening situations. I would also take grandmas old fashioned remedy Caster Oil, and induce vomiting. Dump all the content of the stomach, and both intestines, then drink as much distilled water as possible. ( I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice only a precaution.) Being hospitals are places I avoid like the plague, I choose not to support the medical drug cartels.
The flute of peril.. You should do Oleander next. It has escaped cultivation. Campers have made hot-dog cooking sticks of peril. They are nice and straight.
Also, it grows in pretty much all of North America. Also, it doesn't bloom in winter. Also my name is Moist. Also, I like sheep. Also saying also a lot also adds to the benefits of writing also.
Water Hemlocks generally prefer wet locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Water Hemlock isn't one plant but a collection of related plants that comprise the Cicuta genus. All Water Hemlocks are extremely poisonous and contain cicutoxin.
Lomatium Disectum is actually wild 🥕 carrot and IS edible. In fact it's an antiviral that saved the American Indians who called it Biscuit root, survived the pneumatic plague in early 1900s. This is so distressing to learn about.
I had a plant which looked like this growing in my garden when i bought my first house 25 years ago. I used to use it in flower arrangements. I think it came up and bloomed a second year, but never again. I've never seen it anywhere again, other than on RUclips. I live in Australia. 🇦🇺
Thank you for making this video there eh! I'm in New Brunswick Canada a few years ago gotten a bad burn from wild parsnip... had no idea cut some with a wipper snipper got some juice on my foot then sat in the sun on the deck with my wife for a bit, with in a couple days sever burns and blisters, when to work the next day started reacting I thought I had gotten a chemical burn with caustic or acid is how bad it was...unfortunately I have all over my yard
I've been on so many hiking tours in the North West, and no one ever warned us, hikers, about the dangerous plants of this kind. Thanks for your video. 👋💐❤️
Well I have learned something new today,thankyou. This also grows in England. I wonder why we dont hear much about this,also are people's immune systems getting weaker??.. I have been around this stuff,as a kid,and I don't remember getting affected. I just done a quick Google search. I am shocked. Right i am going to pick my jaw up off the floor & carry on watching.. Thanks for educating us,appreciate it. Stay safe out there & have a blessed day,xx
Being from a huge congested city and moving to the country, I heard this was poison so before I decided to ever touch it I decided to leave it, I have a whole lot to learn about safe wild edibles, thank you for this video it really cleared up my question on this plant, it’s growing absolutely all over my property, any idea how to get rid of this or at least cut it back with out poisoning my yard?
Are you sure it is hemlock, purplish smooth stems? I have similar plants on my property, but not hemlock. Hubby happened to ask about it a few weeks ago and we walked around our property and I pointed out the difference so he would know. I have also urged him to always have work gloves with him and not touch any plant with bare hands.
@@TheWirdbird I have similar plants and cut them back and poured boiling water on the stumps. Then I poured some vinegar on. They are coming back now, three months later but I plan to repeat the process. If you whack them a couple of times the roots die. Here I was worried that it was the Chinese strain, which can grow about seven feet tall and has eight foot deep roots, and is toxic. Now after this video, I know they are “ just” water hemlock. Bye, bye, water hemlock.
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I used to be absolutely terrified of flowers with big white umbels. I never knew why. When my grandma saw me freaking out, she explained that what I was dealing with was wild carrot, and from then on I was less afraid. But I always wondered where the fear came from to begin with. Perhaps it was a sort of hemlock-phobia.
How about this for a concept... Your fear of it comes from one of your past lives because your memory wasn't completely reset. You're having minor but direct subconscious recollections from a past life that you've lived. Check out divinity and quantum physics. They do correlate with one another. On a microscopic level, all things are made of atoms...atoms are made of smaller thing's...nucleus, etc. All of these things are made of energy and vibrate continuously. Energy never dies, it only disperses. Therefore when you die, you don't truly die, your energy is just dispersed into the universe. The circle is the most divine shape in the whole universe. From atoms and cells to planets and suns, they're circles (or spheres depending on your 2d or 3d viewpoint.) A circle is continuous. It has no beginning, no end. Would it not make sense then that our life cycle is just that? A circular cycle? Just as the cycles of the moon, the seasons of the earth, the paths of the planets. We are born, live, die, have a resting phase and then are born again? Check it out. I've been learning about it for years and will be for years to come. People have discussed these theories and based entire religions on them. From scientists\physicists and astronomers, to mathematicians and doctors. They were not and are not all atheists\agnostics...and they don't all believe in Abrahamic Religions...so what did they and do they believe in? Check out: The Golden Dawn
Or maybe some animals just have a natural inclination to want to avoid certain affects of the environment? A genetic disposition leading to a fear of a specific arrangement of flowers. Consider how butterflies depend on milkweed for their existence and how some animals can be considered natural enemies.
I remember a few years back I almost ended up a statistic by mistaking water hemlock with wild mint. They smell similar. In Colorado, mint can grow big, and grows generally in the same area as water hemlock. I harvested some leaves and dried it at home and was going to make a wild mint tea. My own laziness saved me as I pushed it off until the leaves became too dusty to make a tea.
Thanks for this video, there's quite a few poisonous plants out there, Foxglove can even be bought in some garden centers in UK, its beautiful but poisonous too. Maybe do a video on poisonous plants would be good.
We have activated charcoal pills in both our cars and every single time we eat anything we forage we also take the pills. Helps a lot with mushroom farts too. It's cheap stuff, if you're going to forage no reason not to have it.
Wow. Thank you! Just sent this video to my family. I just started planting Wild Carrot in our yard. Want to make sure while they’re out hiking some day they don’t come across the wrong thing.
How horrible!! Thank you for posting this. I learned so much. Back in the 70's, I used to use Queen of The Meadow, or Wild Carrot, for kidney infections; it worked really great, but then herbal stores stopped carrying itn and I moved to the desert. I guess maybe this is the reason it can no longer be found in stores; it's too easily confused with these deadly look-alikes. I had no idea this could be found in every state. Good to know.
Wild carrot (Daucus carota) stems are hairy, water hemlock, and hemlock isn’t. Wild carrot also known as Bird’s nest, Bishop’s lace Queen Anne’s lace in North America. Daucus carota also has a very small dark center. It’s also used to colour butter, which apparently they think is necessary, I don’t.
Thank you this clear and thorough PSA!!! I did touch a plant that looked like this prior to my breakout on my hands this year!!!!!!!!! I just got a video on YT about this a couple of days ago and am furious that PA has never told me about it in all my 45 years! Im constantly getting poison and no one seems to care to remove it from their property nor public lands even in the cityscape...
Thanks great info to know. Here in our area of West Texas, we have one bad plant called Death Cama. During it's early growth, looks like a long green onion. The leaves are not round but v shaped and is quite toxic. Smells like and onion and i believe it has a bulb shaped root. I picked it once and brought it in then decided to look it up. Thank God I had an ounce of training to not sample before looking it up. Anyways, you might find a good video to do with this one. L8R
we were taught as children when very young about the hemlocks back in the 1940s. and the other thing I can remember was wild watercress to wash it well as it may have liver fluke wilts UK.
Picked this many times to add with wildflower bouquets. I too, just called it Queen Anne's Lace. I knew wild carrot was similar, but NOW I know how to properly identify! ty!
Last month I saw this plant on a Lake Michigan beach and used a plant id app to prove to myself it was Queen Anne's lace. What a shock to learn it was water hemlock. Very helpful video.
This plant is more often confused for yarrow, this is likely why that family made a creme from it as yarrow is used medicinally. No idea how you can confuse it for carrot as it smells nothing like carrot.
@@cynthiagonzalez658 Go to the grocery store and buy carrots with the tops on. Crush the tops and smell them. If you can't smell them, you probably can't smell a lot of other things.
I just discovered wild carrot (ID’d from Picture This app) but it happens to be growing near Poison Hemlock, tall stiff stems, which I ID’d the same way. Different pictures of the wild carrot and it confirms wild carrot, but I did not know to check the stem. I didn’t know what to do about the poison hemlock, it was literally 4 feet tall and really pretty blooms, but when I was down there yesterday, it’s growing along the roadside in the country it was all dead and I wondered if maybe the county road people sprayed it or I couldn’t understand it l, and I wasn’t sure what to do about it because it’s poisonous. I didn’t wanna be handling it but I wanted to get rid of it. So I’m just very fortunate I happen to see this video and thanks so much! Also would love to know what editing program you use because I love your graphics. Subbed and 👍🏻
the most incredible thing is that im reading proverbs and TODAY i read the very chapter you quoted and it came to mind moments before you posted it on the bottom of the video. No coincidence there. As the rabbis say, coincidence is not kosher.
Wow as I was growing up walking through field and cow pastures I'd pull up wild carrots and smell there roots, as I thought that's what they were. I don't ever remember trying it. This information should be well known in school and elsewhere.
I am so happy I found this video! I have been wondering what the Queen Ann’s Lace look alike is called. I knew not to touch it, then I recalled that QAL has a circle in the middle of the flower. Water Hemlock looks so pretty and benign. Ha! This video may just have saved me from serious illness. Thank you! X 1000
Glad you covered this. It truly amazes me the people who don't bother to look up something thoroughly before sticking it in their mouths. I had a friend whose chicken are some and died
If you check your fields and you find water hemlock or poison hemlock is there how do you eradicate it? Do you simply pull it up and take the weed someplace where animals can't get to it or do you have to dig it up extensively and burn it? Is it a plant that every bit of root left in the ground has the potential to become a new plant? Please advise us that is very important to know. Does it produce seeds that will lie dormant in the ground for years and later grow?
If you burn it i wouldn't be anywhere close as burning thi gs like this can sometimes cause the poison to be in the smoke and surrounding area. When I was a kid we had a bonfire and some people threw poison ivy in there and my entire face was covered and swelled up for 2 weeks. It was miserable
it is on my property until this video i thought it was queen anne s lace. at the enf of summer just before fall it puts out seeds and wil come back. i cannot spray it with herbicide as i have dogs. when i did not know it was poison i pulled it out by the roots with its seed pods and bagged it up in the trash. i always wear gloves due to ants. now i will be extra careful and wear long sleeves and long pants. great video.
@@MochaZilla poison ivey reactions are caused by the oil that contacts your skin. I highly doubt burning it caused you to have that reaction. You touched it at some point or a friend did and then came into contact with you.
Wow, thank you for sharing this! I was not aware that this very close look-alike plant is so deadly. My daughter and I love to pick Queen Anne’s lace. I will show this to her, and we will be more careful!
At first glance it looks like Yarrow. I just got property and an app to identify what's here. I'm so new to this, I didn't even think about a plant being so poisoness it could kill. Thank you very much for this life saving video!!
Thanks! This video could save lives. Where do you purchase your activated charcoal, which brands do you like? Seems like a really great product to have on hand.
I almost consumed this plant thinking it was a wild parsnip. I collected it with a friend in Big Sky Montana while practicing survival skills. Luckily I held off on eating it until i got back to my dorm (to clean it was muddy). When i gave it a nibble i did some of the edible test for wild plants and let it sit in my mouth to observe the feeling. It had a bit of spice to the flavor so I decided it wasn't worth trying a wild parsnip of 2 bites at the risk it's something dangerous. I still didn't know it was water hemlock yet but i spit it out. The next day I got off work and there was a note on my door from my friend that said... "Don't eat the wild parsnip. Death ☠" What's worse is I had a reference book on edible plants BUT the poison plants were in a section further into the book lol.
It's nice to meet you, friend. Thank you so much for sharing this very important and vital information with us! I am curious if you might know of any plants that are toxic to cats too. Have a very wonderful day! I really appreciated the information you shared with us in this video.
When I was very young, maybe 4 or 5, I remember this exact plant I tried to grab the stem and pick the white umbrella flowers.....the skin on my palm ripped off....it literally cut my hand from me grabbing it and pulling. The stem was hollow and woody and would not snap in half. As my hand slid up the stem trying to pull it, it stung and hurt. This memory is something Ive never forgotten, this video helped me identify what it was.
I just found a huge patch of this in a hayfield I use for my horses, do you have any information on how to remove it and if it is still poisonous when it is dry?
Herbicide. 2,4,D is a common herbicide for use in grasses, but this has to have a period of waiting time before harvest. Your local Cooperative Extension can help you. I would kill it with roundup in the spots. The hemlock seeds are the problem. I don't know how horses do on Sudan grass (not for grazing), not the Sorghum hybrid either. I'd fall plow and spay herbicide in the spring, then plant Sudan grass thick to choke out any hemlock seedlings. Sudan grass has some harvesting rules because of prussic acid, but it would choke out the weeds and It's a good hay for some livestock. Next year I'd plant oats seeded down with a new hay blend. The oats can be cut for hay when they start to seed out. Both 2,4,D and Round-up have some negatives, but when used properly, they work. Round-up is in our food because it's used as a dry down agent 10-14 days before grains like wheat are combined for flour. Contact the Cooperative to get the knowledge you need, not some guy online. HTH
Yes it is still poisonous when dry. I had a patch in my yard. Wearing goggles and protective gloves and clothing, I have uprooted it and disposed of it in black garbage bags. Because it is a two year plant, I am keeping the area mowed regularly for two years to eradicate it. Round up sprayed on it at the right stage of growth also kills it. I sprayed another patch when it was only a foot high. Took a couple of weeks to die. Keep the horses out of there!
@@ryanjones7681 that is very bad advice. The horses may not touch it while it is growing in the pasture, but once cut, dried and baled, they could easily ingest it along with the other dried grasses, and yes, poison hemlock is deadly to horses.
I grew up familiar with gueen ann's lace, but only found out this year that poison hemlock looks almost alike it also called wild carrot. Queen Ann has hairy legs. I thank you for that info. Great video.
I posted on your last video on: "currents" and I thought this one would be about Hemlock. I forgot about Water Hemlock. The Hemlock in this area of Oklahoma, grows like a white carpet!!! It is spreading all over Texas, and Oklahoma. The ranchers can't cut it back fast enough. If this was not You Tube, I would post some photos of 20 acres of nothing but, poison Hemlock. But, No photos allowed!!! (🦄 Here is a nice Unicorn!!! Isn't that lovely...) Thank You, for your work and the tips on foraging for medicineal plants. I have a full set of "Roy Tory Peterson's" field guides on almost everthing from plants, rocks, birds, snakes, etc. And it has two giant books of color plates. The collection was $4400.00 as they are all signed with signature cards. The field guides are soft leather and will fit in a small backpack. Peterson was trained by; "John J. Audubon." I use the books for reference even though today, apps are available for matching any plant, rock, or tree with a simple cell phone photo. I would rather look them up in a book. I am old!!!👴 So, stay away from Hemlock, it is bad news!!! Brother James OSB
There’s a lot of potential in psychedelics, I can’t wait to try any of them mushrooms specifically but it’s just so hard to find a reliable source over here, I’ll be glad if anyone can be of help.
Psilocybin has been a game changer in my life! I prefer micro dosing a few times a week now that I got the dose just right! Seasonal depression is a thing and shrooms can most definitely help..
Thank you so much for pointing out this dangerous plant. I have shared this video with people I care about. I don’t know if I have encountered this plant before because it looks so harmless, who would pay it any attention! I have gotten rashes before and don’t know what I brushed up against. We have poison ivy in the area, which no matter how hard I try, I can’t distinguish it from other harmless weeds.
Just walking through a field of hemlock can cause increased heart rate, shortness of breath and even pain as the worse anxiety and as severe as having a heart attack. It happened to me. I thought I was having a heart attack.
These are popping up all over my garden and backyard....I've tried plant apps to identify as I was worried about giant hogweed. It was identified as wild carrot or this flower you speak of. Regardless I'm chopping all of them down today! We have 2 dogs who love to eat leaves and grass! I noticed my puppy going for one of these by my step this morning and this video popped up! I got her out of there before she could start chomping and now have my tools ready and fire to burn it! Thankyou!!!!
Please don't burn it!!! My neighbor almost died from someone burning poison ivy. I sure would not want to inhale hemlock particles. Kind regards, please be safe!
THIS needs to be taught in schools.👍
It would be a great subject to learn.
It was in my highschool but I was to busy getting high to pay attention... One of my many regrets.
They do in many schools, but a 16 year old cares more about awkward relationships.
Instead of woke bs.
@@rebel1187 There should be an introduction to these plants in grade school and then a reminder every year after that.
Growing up In NY we were constantly warned about the yew shrubs (with their gooey red berries) planted as hedges EVERYWHERE (way back when)... And, in CA the poisonous oleander trees are ubiquitous along the highways, streets, and yards.
But I don't recall any formal teachings in the classrooms. It was the parents and teachers warning us offhandedly, and then the smart kids passed the lessons on to their less-aware friends whenever needed.
I'm pretty sure the kid across the street saved my life a couple of times. I was always chewing on wild plants.
When I was younger I used it as a straw. What happened is my heartbeat went over 300 according to the EMT sitting in the back of the ambulance with me. My chest started hurting. I told him and he looked very worried and said you don't want to have a heart attack until we get you to the hospital. I said man, I'm trying. Now mind you all I did is make a straw out of it and pretend I was sipping through it. Basically touched it to my lips. And handled it. Almost killed me.
Most of the poison is in the stem.
This is so frightening. I used to pull up queen Ann's lace all the time. For bouquet or just to play with it. I didn't know of poison hemlock. A month or so ago a post on FB popped up in a gardening group about a young girl and her encounter ( just touching the plant!!!) with poison hemlock. She swelled up in hives and went into anaphylaxis and the poor young child almost died. She survived but the pictures of her where terrible. So thank you for making this video. People have to know how to spot poison plants even though they may think it is a common weed!
Don't live in fear. Educate yourself.
The plant oils cause burns when exposed to the sun.
@healthyfitmom
I picked this plant as a child also, never ate any, but just like you I thought oh pretty flowers...
I see it all over in the state I live in.
NGL I totally thought this was queen Anne's lace. I've only bought it dries and I wouldn't have known better
Yes i thought it was queens annes lace was the same poisonous plant. I didnt know hemlock was different plant altogether.
Lived a remote cabin that was made vacant when the former occupant died as a result of ingesting water hemlock. Was told by a member of his family that "he died very violently ill".
I've been learning &foraging for 5 years. I've watched a lot of videos, follow all the well-known herbalist and non have addressed this plant as thoroughly as you. TY!
It’s incredible just how fragile we humans actually are. I have always aired on the side of caution with wild edibles. Unless I am absolutely positive about it, I never risk it. Thanks for sharing this information. It truly is information that could save a life.
Hey not correcting ya to be a d*ck. I just figure you may appreciate knowing is all so you don't get someone who actually gets all egotistical about it at you sometime. Its "erred" on the side of caution! Erred meaning like if you are going to make an error you prefer to lean towards one error or choice then the other. "to be especially careful rather than taking a risk or making a mistake" . Its a common error! Hope you are well!
A lot of us hear 'aired' as kids and just get kinda stuck in the misunderstood hearing of it. Much like any 'egg corn' word.
erred. i'm fun at parties
That was really helpful. I had never heard of water hemlock. It is really great to learn how to tell the difference between that and queen anne’s lace. Great to know about activated charcoal.
Queens Ann lace grows shorter The plant talked about here can get about 5,, feet tall at times. I used to see it allot. My brother and I used to hike all the time and I remember seeing this plant growing.
We were always pulling plants off and sticking them in our mouths. Especially sassafras we knew what we were handling, but that could have been fatal.
We were always loafing around in the woods by ourselves. I don't think that our family knew about this plant either.
One thing he failed to mention is that the Queen Anne's Lace inflorescence is more compact and always has one tiny dark purple floret in the center.
@@notmyworld44 Yes it usually has a dark spot in the centre of the umbel but in my experience not always. It always has - as well as the hairy legs - little fronds that look almost like another green flower stuck on the underside of the umbel.
@@earthsmoke9450 Thank you for that.
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@@notmyworld44 No probs friend. All the best to you!
When hunting for native plants around a local pond, i looked up the most toxic plants beforehand to ID them. There is water hemlock in areas so i knew about it. It's a town pond with a walking trail and people fish there. I feel obligated to report this to the parks department to protect unsuspecting people. They should also post laminated charts of toxic plants so people can be educated. Many have their children with them.
When i was a child I played in woods and fields before the housing developments and always picked something flowering to bring to my mother. I never thought anything to be so painfully crippling and fatal back then. This video made me so much more aware.
Maybe, next time, just take a spray bottle of Round-Up with you and kill the weed. That method is faster and more reliable then reporting it ANY parks department. If you spray it, it won't seed anymore and it just withers away. Forever.
Be careful using the Roundup itself
So glad I watched this. Recently starting foraging and been doing 'nibble tests' ..see if my lips tingle, go numb etc..
No more nibble testing for me!!! 😬
Thank you.. 🙏
NEVER nibble something to "test" it! Purchase a book with photographs of poisonous plants, so you can SEE what they look like. If you are not absolutely sure it is safe to eat, don't touch it, just pass it by.
Poison Hemlock. Story of hiker, in shorts & boots hiking thru mountainous region. Walked through a large area covered in this plant. Became neuro toxic & died alone, because of contact with leaves against his legs. Death determined by secondary toxicology. Plant poison was not addressed in 1st toxicology. Died so quickly that his lunch was undigested. He was a seasoned hiker.
Wow, that is a rough experience to go through.
@@HealthAndHomestead
Yup. Doesn’t get much rougher than death.
Kay, that is like something out of a nightmare... l know some hikers... Dont know if they know....l see this weed by creek where l live.... Don't know if peop!e are aware there are things that are just deadly....it doesn't have to be a rattlesnake...
I don’t buy it.
Like emergency rescue saying opioid can be transmitted via skin contact.
When really it’s misinformation
Where the only reason for response is panic attacks
He probably did more than rub his legs against it or he was extra sensitive... Most people can handle or touch it without ill effects.
Queen Anne's lace also has a single smaller dark purple flower in the center of the flowers. You can also pull out the plant and smell the root. If it smells like carrot, has a purple flower, and hairy stem... it's queen Anne's lace AKA Wild carrot.
Uh, if your wrong and it is hemlock, touching it and you are poisoned!
No, poison hemlock (assuming water hemlock as well) have a carrot smell in their roots. And the dark purple flower is not always there. The best way to identify wild carrot is through the hairy and pithy stems.
I often carry activated charcoal and have used it for about 30 years. As a poultice it works great for any stings or bites from insects. For internal purposes, I find ginger ale best to mixt the powder for drinking. Caution, charcoal will stain clothing and carpets.
On day adventures there have been times when I didn't have any with me and someone got stung by a bee. I made a fire to intentionally make charcoal, mashed it up and added water to make a poultice then applied it to the sting site. It removed the poison for about 15 minutes, then clean the poultice off and apply a new fresh one. It pulls the poison from the bee sting.
Thank you Macnuth for your knowledge of activated charcoal cheers
Baking soda right away safest for bee stings
Smokeless Tobacco is best thing I've found for bee/wasp stings. Just my 2 cents
This planet about to BURN AND die. You all focusing on minor. Get right with God and make sure we have food and water...stop stupidity. This is minor. Gas prices rising and food shortages
Our government wild
Too much going on for this IGNORANT video. You can tell he is biblically BLIND
@@averagenobody6577 Actual smoking tobacco works too. I knew a guy who got stung quite often while surveying properties. He smoked, so he always had cigs with him. He'd break off a piece of the end of a fresh cig, spit on it if water wasn't available to dampen it, and apply it to the sting. Said it worked like a charm.
Thank you for sharing this. My young lads and I often walk the trails around here and see this stuff all the time. We try to avoid ticks in the tall weeds so avoid it but that is rather scary because we do often forage for wild foods. Good to know to avoid this and how to identify wild carrots
Wow, I had no idea this plant is throughout the US. Thank you for sharing this information
You are welcome. We had fun making this video. It is amazing how it is all over North America.
Another way to compare wild carrot vs hemlock is to look at the flowers. Water hemlock flower branch out into clusters, but carrots have a single large bunch. Another difference in the flowers is that the wild carrot have a single purple flower in the middle of the bunch of white flowers.
@@ringofasho7721 Thank you for sharing this added information
@SHAK3 N I was just not aware of it and being a novice to look alike poisonous plants it was amazing how easily it could be mistaken for the other. It was good to learn about!
@SHAK3 N it's been around and well known for hundreds of years. The new foraging spike is what I attribute poisonings to. People research edible plants online and have no real world experience
I had one this year under my apple tree. I didn't know it was poison but then decided to look it up. Glad I did.
Just today, I saw what I thought was queen anne's lace growing in my garden bed. It had been there for a while and looked like it was making seeds. I pulled it. Nope it was an actual carrot, and I really hope the seeds are developed enough. I hung it to dry, so hopefully that will save the seeds. At least I knew it wasn't hemlock! Having seen a couple videos on the stuff, I think I can tell the difference now.
Have something like this growing all over the new property I just bought. Went to look and STILL can’t tell if it’s poisonous or not. So glad I didn’t make those “beautiful bouquets” when everything first started blooming. 😳
Excellent lesson I didn't know about these plants! Great job and you're saving lives!!😇🙏🏾
I have always traveled a lot and love the herbal world. I appreciate this reminder because I was checking out some last fall and cut the flowers for a vase. I couldn't remember what it was called, and I did get a slight rash on my fingers. I ALWAYS keep Activated Charcoal in my medicine chest and especially travel gear; always. Bentonite clay is also a good detox. A tip is that the activated charcoal can be a little hard on one's constitution, so I always follow it up with Yakult (or yogurt) to replace the good gut stuff. Activated charcoal is amazingly fast and effective. Great content. New subbie!
Spurge is fairly attractive. I let some go in my yard. After a couple of years it was taking over. Hubby pulled it and I carried it to the back of the yard, where we replanted it along the fence. I got a big rash, then did some reading, which says don’t get its latex juice on your skin. The next year I just brushed against one and got a rash. The ones we moved did not survive the move, and I use gloves and pull any I see. Fortunately it is pretty easy to get rid of, even though kind of invasive If left unchecked.
It’s a great idea then to bring activated charcoal when you go hiking, just in case.
For sure. Great for hikes and traveling in any situation. We take it nearly everywhere we go. Blessings.
The difficulty in identifying plants for me, is the abundant use of names for the same plant. I also find most ID sources focus on the flower not the stems & leaves. I have a plant in the Umbelliferae / Apiaceae family which is still unknown to me, I have pulled it bare handed it’s not toxic topically, it is though, very invasive it takes over my red bergamot if allowed, unlike the Monarda which attracts Humming Birds & butterflies, this plant attracts flies.
Your video is helpful in identifying Water Hemlock, thank you.
I subscribed after watching your video on 11 survival crops and then while watching this one’s opening, I thought, “wow, he really talks like Chad Kreuzer” and low and behold!! You’ve created a great channel and glad I ran across it, I’m glad you’re doing well and have moved to the country! Blessings!
We had hemlock growing under our apple tree in Washington state. Later found hemlock growing in parks and along trails.
We also had deadly night shade.
In Yorkshire, UK, as children we used to call it “Mother Die”. Thanks for sharing.
I'm a ginger. We have very sensitive skin. I also grew up playing in the woods, hunting, camping, ect. Skin irritation was just part of it. (My grandmother used to put me in a bath of oatmeal, or bleach, lol)
Anyway, I just recently bush hogged her property, and there is wild onion, wild garlic, and a bunch of hemlock.
Just pretty much mowing the grass (4 ft tall) was terrible. She sold her old tractor that was an old row crop tractor, and got one of those little compact tractors. So, I was right in there with the stuff.
Is there anything that helps against irritation / immune response for sensitive skin / eyes?
@@marcus8710A spacesuit.
The flowers also could look like yarrow-which may be why that family made it into a salve.
Holy crap
Looks so much alike, Baby’s breath in bouquets look just like this? Wow.
A very important video Chad. Thank you for putting it together.
You are welcome. It was enjoyable to put together.
This is why it is so important to make your own activated charcoal and store lots of it on the homestead. Either super high temperature or chemical (never tried this one) are the methods I know of.
you could just buy a big 1/2 gallon carton of it from a pet supply place. it is used to polish aquarium water as it ADSORBS heavy metals into its atomic nooks and crannies.
I was unaware of the similarity and differences between this and queen anne's lace. It is now a quest of mine to identify some of this in the wild.
be careful. there are a couple of others which look very similar
I LOVE your channel!! You give such succinct, pertinent, useful information!!! Thank you for working so hard to provide such in-depth information!!
@SHAK3 N lol I haven’t bought anything except the like and subscribe button- I don’t care what he makes from YT but I learn something that ENRICHES my life so I really don’t care!
Your video just motivated me to get some activated charcoal to have on hand for a broad range of reasons.
This video is the epitome of why we should be taught these this gs in school or at home by parents. Schools are filling heads with nonsense today about how you fit into society. Society is collapsing if anyone took the time to pull their heads out of the sand to see they would know. Plants and animals, God given nature is what is truly important. Seek Jesus and grow food. God bless!
1st Rule of Foraging is to "Never put anything in your mouth that you don't know what it is"
No, schools are NOT doing that…..
@@choccolocco yes they are...appalling things across the country.
@@terrirobinson2935
They are absolutely not. That’s a fact. You’re just parroting what certain ppl with an agenda are telling you. As someone very familiar with the education system, I know. And what you claim, again, is not true.
@@choccolocco you a teacher?
@@boondocks8002
No, but I am quite familiar with the education system.
If by chance you want to bicker, look in to how private schools don’t have to report(make public), like pub ed, nor have to abide by the same standards.
If not, sorry……but no, I am not.
Fantastic post young man THANK4SGIVING
The active charcoal is a great choice, but redundancy is crucial in life threatening situations. I would also take grandmas old fashioned remedy Caster Oil, and induce vomiting. Dump all the content of the stomach, and both intestines, then drink as much distilled water as possible.
( I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice only a precaution.) Being hospitals are places I avoid like the plague, I choose not to support the medical drug cartels.
Smart.
Very dangerous up here in northern BC. A farmer we know lost 7 cows a few years ago to it.
Wow that is tough.
Thank you for the warning, from Kamloops.
Thank you for this offering. I have picked wild carrot but NEVER heard of this plant! Gratitude !!!!!
The flute of peril.. You should do Oleander next. It has escaped cultivation. Campers have made hot-dog cooking sticks of peril. They are nice and straight.
Also knowing where these things grow is also key also knowing what time of year they bloom is also extremely important
Also, it grows in pretty much all of North America. Also, it doesn't bloom in winter. Also my name is Moist. Also, I like sheep. Also saying also a lot also adds to the benefits of writing also.
@@moist5717 🤣
Water Hemlocks generally prefer wet locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Water Hemlock isn't one plant but a collection of related plants that comprise the Cicuta genus. All Water Hemlocks are extremely poisonous and contain cicutoxin.
Lomatium Disectum is actually wild 🥕 carrot and IS edible. In fact it's an antiviral that saved the American Indians who called it Biscuit root, survived the pneumatic plague in early 1900s. This is so distressing to learn about.
I Love how you added Proverbs to it
I had a plant which looked like this growing in my garden when i bought my first house 25 years ago. I used to use it in flower arrangements. I think it came up and bloomed a second year, but never again. I've never seen it anywhere again, other than on RUclips. I live in Australia. 🇦🇺
This is probably the least dangerous plant on Australia lol
Thank you for making this video there eh! I'm in New Brunswick Canada a few years ago gotten a bad burn from wild parsnip... had no idea cut some with a wipper snipper got some juice on my foot then sat in the sun on the deck with my wife for a bit, with in a couple days sever burns and blisters, when to work the next day started reacting I thought I had gotten a chemical burn with caustic or acid is how bad it was...unfortunately I have all over my yard
I can't imagine how horrible that must've been!
Thanks for sharing that really useful information, especially about charcoal.
This plant is grows wild in the uk and Ireland as well.
I've been on so many hiking tours in the North West, and no one ever warned us, hikers, about the dangerous plants of this kind. Thanks for your video. 👋💐❤️
Great video and quite informational in helping to identify the differences between hemlock and wild carrot.
Yarrow looks similar but is good for circulation. I add yarrow tea to my morning coffee.
Well I have learned something new today,thankyou.
This also grows in England. I wonder why we dont hear much about this,also are people's immune systems getting weaker??..
I have been around this stuff,as a kid,and I don't remember getting affected. I just done a quick Google search. I am shocked. Right i am going to pick my jaw up off the floor & carry on watching..
Thanks for educating us,appreciate it. Stay safe out there & have a blessed day,xx
Being from a huge congested city and moving to the country, I heard this was poison so before I decided to ever touch it I decided to leave it, I have a whole lot to learn about safe wild edibles, thank you for this video it really cleared up my question on this plant, it’s growing absolutely all over my property, any idea how to get rid of this or at least cut it back with out poisoning my yard?
Are you sure it is hemlock, purplish smooth stems? I have similar plants on my property, but not hemlock. Hubby happened to ask about it a few weeks ago and we walked around our property and I pointed out the difference so he would know. I have also urged him to always have work gloves with him and not touch any plant with bare hands.
@@TheWirdbird I have similar plants and cut them back and poured boiling water on the stumps. Then I poured some vinegar on. They are coming back now, three months later but I plan to repeat the process. If you whack them a couple of times the roots die. Here I was worried that it was the Chinese strain, which can grow about seven feet tall and has eight foot deep roots, and is toxic. Now after this video, I know they are “ just” water hemlock. Bye, bye, water hemlock.
Maybe salt,and vinegar.
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...not sure if it works on this, but I've killed quite a few plants with fermented urine. 👍😲🤗 )0(
Thanks for adding a scripture that so aptly illustrates this weed . I had no idea there was such a devastating plant . Bless you
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I used to be absolutely terrified of flowers with big white umbels. I never knew why. When my grandma saw me freaking out, she explained that what I was dealing with was wild carrot, and from then on I was less afraid. But I always wondered where the fear came from to begin with. Perhaps it was a sort of hemlock-phobia.
How about this for a concept...
Your fear of it comes from one of your past lives because your memory wasn't completely reset. You're having minor but direct subconscious recollections from a past life that you've lived.
Check out divinity and quantum physics. They do correlate with one another. On a microscopic level, all things are made of atoms...atoms are made of smaller thing's...nucleus, etc. All of these things are made of energy and vibrate continuously. Energy never dies, it only disperses. Therefore when you die, you don't truly die, your energy is just dispersed into the universe.
The circle is the most divine shape in the whole universe. From atoms and cells to planets and suns, they're circles (or spheres depending on your 2d or 3d viewpoint.) A circle is continuous. It has no beginning, no end. Would it not make sense then that our life cycle is just that? A circular cycle? Just as the cycles of the moon, the seasons of the earth, the paths of the planets. We are born, live, die, have a resting phase and then are born again?
Check it out. I've been learning about it for years and will be for years to come. People have discussed these theories and based entire religions on them. From scientists\physicists and astronomers, to mathematicians and doctors. They were not and are not all atheists\agnostics...and they don't all believe in Abrahamic Religions...so what did they and do they believe in?
Check out:
The Golden Dawn
No, it's because you're a witch.
Maybe some people inherently recognize danger for other reasons. Maybe she feels the plant's energy and its a bad energy.
@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo Let me get those shrooms bro
Or maybe some animals just have a natural inclination to want to avoid certain affects of the environment? A genetic disposition leading to a fear of a specific arrangement of flowers. Consider how butterflies depend on milkweed for their existence and how some animals can be considered natural enemies.
We have tons of Water Hemlock and Poison Hemlock all over the woods in Alaska, especially near creeks and lagoons. Especially in South Central Alaska.
Is it in Wasilla wooded areas?
I remember a few years back I almost ended up a statistic by mistaking water hemlock with wild mint. They smell similar. In Colorado, mint can grow big, and grows generally in the same area as water hemlock. I harvested some leaves and dried it at home and was going to make a wild mint tea. My own laziness saved me as I pushed it off until the leaves became too dusty to make a tea.
Thank you for that remedy. I did not know that it had a remedy, this information is gold! Thank you so much for sharing it😁😁😁
Thanks for this video, there's quite a few poisonous plants out there, Foxglove can even be bought in some garden centers in UK, its beautiful but poisonous too. Maybe do a video on poisonous plants would be good.
We have activated charcoal pills in both our cars and every single time we eat anything we forage we also take the pills.
Helps a lot with mushroom farts too.
It's cheap stuff, if you're going to forage no reason not to have it.
Interesting 🤔
Wow. Thank you! Just sent this video to my family. I just started planting Wild Carrot in our yard. Want to make sure while they’re out hiking some day they don’t come across the wrong thing.
great application of "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12, 16:25
How horrible!! Thank you for posting this. I learned so much.
Back in the 70's, I used to use Queen of The Meadow, or Wild Carrot, for kidney infections; it worked really great, but then herbal stores stopped carrying itn and I moved to the desert. I guess maybe this is the reason it can no longer be found in stores; it's too easily confused with these deadly look-alikes.
I had no idea this could be found in every state. Good to know.
The reason you can't find good medicine in stores is because they profit more off sick people.
Wild carrot (Daucus carota) stems are hairy, water hemlock, and hemlock isn’t.
Wild carrot also known as Bird’s nest, Bishop’s lace Queen Anne’s lace in North America. Daucus carota also has a very small dark center. It’s also used to colour butter, which apparently they think is necessary, I don’t.
You should have also mentioned the reason they eat the roots is because they look so much like parsnips.
ya, I wont even touch real "wild carrot" which is NOTHING like a carrot. Gag.
They were talking about this plant this morning on the ch.4 news in Dallas .it was spotted at white rock lake.
Thank you this clear and thorough PSA!!! I did touch a plant that looked like this prior to my breakout on my hands this year!!!!!!!!! I just got a video on YT about this a couple of days ago and am furious that PA has never told me about it in all my 45 years! Im constantly getting poison and no one seems to care to remove it from their property nor public lands even in the cityscape...
We have imported this plant into Austria as well and it's spreading quickly!
Thanks great info to know. Here in our area of West Texas, we have one bad plant called Death Cama. During it's early growth, looks like a long green onion. The leaves are not round but v shaped and is quite toxic. Smells like and onion and i believe it has a bulb shaped root. I picked it once and brought it in then decided to look it up. Thank God I had an ounce of training to not sample before looking it up. Anyways, you might find a good video to do with this one. L8R
Good thing you did look it up. Thanks for the suggestion.
we were taught as children when very young about the hemlocks back in the 1940s. and the other thing I can remember was wild watercress to wash it well as it may have liver fluke wilts UK.
Picked this many times to add with wildflower bouquets. I too, just called it Queen Anne's Lace. I knew wild carrot was similar, but NOW I know how to properly identify! ty!
Is this the same as DropWaterHemlock as found in UK?
Got painful blisters on hand after hiking on Mt Juneau , Alaska. Brushed by one of these. Had no clue.
Yes - same here only in the Mat-Su valley- it burns like crazy.
Last month I saw this plant on a Lake Michigan beach and used a plant id app to prove to myself it was Queen Anne's lace. What a shock to learn it was water hemlock. Very helpful video.
Short, sweet, clear and informative. That's the way it ought to be. Thank you. I'm stocking activated charcoal.
It is good to have.
This plant is more often confused for yarrow, this is likely why that family made a creme from it as yarrow is used medicinally. No idea how you can confuse it for carrot as it smells nothing like carrot.
What does carrot smell like? It's got no smell.
@@cynthiagonzalez658 Go to the grocery store and buy carrots with the tops on. Crush the tops and smell them. If you can't smell them, you probably can't smell a lot of other things.
@@darkwood777
Sorry, no such things as carrots with tops on around here!!
I just discovered wild carrot (ID’d from Picture This app) but it happens to be growing near Poison Hemlock, tall stiff stems, which I ID’d the same way. Different pictures of the wild carrot and it confirms wild carrot, but I did not know to check the stem. I didn’t know what to do about the poison hemlock, it was literally 4 feet tall and really pretty blooms, but when I was down there yesterday, it’s growing along the roadside in the country it was all dead and I wondered if maybe the county road people sprayed it or I couldn’t understand it l, and I wasn’t sure what to do about it because it’s poisonous. I didn’t wanna be handling it but I wanted to get rid of it. So I’m just very fortunate I happen to see this video and thanks so much! Also would love to know what editing program you use because I love your graphics. Subbed and 👍🏻
Thank you. I use Final Cut Pro and use some of the add one by Motion VFX for graphics.
the most incredible thing is that im reading proverbs and TODAY i read the very chapter you quoted and it came to mind moments before you posted it on the bottom of the video. No coincidence there. As the rabbis say, coincidence is not kosher.
Wow as I was growing up walking through field and cow pastures I'd pull up wild carrots and smell there roots, as I thought that's what they were. I don't ever remember trying it. This information should be well known in school and elsewhere.
Thank you for your videos short and straight to the point excellent way to follow councils
Great video! We have this 'evil' plant in the UK too!
I am so happy I found this video! I have been wondering what the Queen Ann’s Lace look alike is called. I knew not to touch it, then I recalled that QAL has a circle in the middle of the flower. Water Hemlock looks so pretty and benign. Ha! This video may just have saved me from serious illness. Thank you! X 1000
Crazy how close it resembles Queens Ann Lace! I will have to keep a closer eye from now on.
Glad you covered this. It truly amazes me the people who don't bother to look up something thoroughly before sticking it in their mouths. I had a friend whose chicken are some and died
If you check your fields and you find water hemlock or poison hemlock is there how do you eradicate it? Do you simply pull it up and take the weed someplace where animals can't get to it or do you have to dig it up extensively and burn it? Is it a plant that every bit of root left in the ground has the potential to become a new plant? Please advise us that is very important to know. Does it produce seeds that will lie dormant in the ground for years and later grow?
If you burn it i wouldn't be anywhere close as burning thi gs like this can sometimes cause the poison to be in the smoke and surrounding area.
When I was a kid we had a bonfire and some people threw poison ivy in there and my entire face was covered and swelled up for 2 weeks. It was miserable
And ive read that burning poison ivy can kill you because the urushiol can enter your lungs and mess you up big time
it is on my property
until this video i thought it was queen anne s lace. at the enf of summer just before fall it puts out seeds and wil come back. i cannot spray it with herbicide as i have dogs. when i did not know it was poison i pulled it out by the roots with its seed pods and bagged it up in the trash. i always wear gloves due to ants. now i will be extra careful and wear long sleeves and long pants. great video.
@@MochaZilla poison ivey reactions are caused by the oil that contacts your skin. I highly doubt burning it caused you to have that reaction. You touched it at some point or a friend did and then came into contact with you.
@@pain_weaver oil is released into the air when you burn it. You seem to be unaware of how droplets can enter the air from burning
Wow, thank you for sharing this! I was not aware that this very close look-alike plant is so deadly. My daughter and I love to pick Queen Anne’s lace. I will show this to her, and we will be more careful!
At first glance it looks like Yarrow. I just got property and an app to identify what's here. I'm so new to this, I didn't even think about a plant being so poisoness it could kill. Thank you very much for this life saving video!!
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@@HealthAndHomestead Thank you for this excellent info and responding with the link here. How do you know how much to use?
I almost consumed this plant thinking it was a wild parsnip. I collected it with a friend in Big Sky Montana while practicing survival skills. Luckily I held off on eating it until i got back to my dorm (to clean it was muddy). When i gave it a nibble i did some of the edible test for wild plants and let it sit in my mouth to observe the feeling. It had a bit of spice to the flavor so I decided it wasn't worth trying a wild parsnip of 2 bites at the risk it's something dangerous. I still didn't know it was water hemlock yet but i spit it out. The next day I got off work and there was a note on my door from my friend that said... "Don't eat the wild parsnip. Death ☠"
What's worse is I had a reference book on edible plants BUT the poison plants were in a section further into the book lol.
Wow, what a story. Glad you are ok.
@@HealthAndHomestead Thanks for the video. I had never realized just how bad it would have been!
It's nice to meet you, friend. Thank you so much for sharing this very important and vital information with us! I am curious if you might know of any plants that are toxic to cats too. Have a very wonderful day! I really appreciated the information you shared with us in this video.
When I was very young, maybe 4 or 5, I remember this exact plant I tried to grab the stem and pick the white umbrella flowers.....the skin on my palm ripped off....it literally cut my hand from me grabbing it and pulling. The stem was hollow and woody and would not snap in half. As my hand slid up the stem trying to pull it, it stung and hurt. This memory is something Ive never forgotten, this video helped me identify what it was.
Doesn't it look like queens Anne's lace.?
Yes, it looks like Queen Anne's lace also known as wild carrot. We show some in the video:)
I just found a huge patch of this in a hayfield I use for my horses, do you have any information on how to remove it and if it is still poisonous when it is dry?
Herbicide. 2,4,D is a common herbicide for use in grasses, but this has to have a period of waiting time before harvest. Your local Cooperative Extension can help you. I would kill it with roundup in the spots. The hemlock seeds are the problem. I don't know how horses do on Sudan grass (not for grazing), not the Sorghum hybrid either. I'd fall plow and spay herbicide in the spring, then plant Sudan grass thick to choke out any hemlock seedlings. Sudan grass has some harvesting rules because of prussic acid, but it would choke out the weeds and It's a good hay for some livestock. Next year I'd plant oats seeded down with a new hay blend. The oats can be cut for hay when they start to seed out. Both 2,4,D and Round-up have some negatives, but when used properly, they work. Round-up is in our food because it's used as a dry down agent 10-14 days before grains like wheat are combined for flour. Contact the Cooperative to get the knowledge you need, not some guy online. HTH
Everything I've seen says that the poisons are persistent and can't be composted, etc.
Yes it is still poisonous when dry. I had a patch in my yard. Wearing goggles and protective gloves and clothing, I have uprooted it and disposed of it in black garbage bags. Because it is a two year plant, I am keeping the area mowed regularly for two years to eradicate it. Round up sprayed on it at the right stage of growth also kills it. I sprayed another patch when it was only a foot high. Took a couple of weeks to die. Keep the horses out of there!
Your horses will be fine. They know not to eat certain plants, and most things that effect us, don't effect them.
@@ryanjones7681 that is very bad advice. The horses may not touch it while it is growing in the pasture, but once cut, dried and baled, they could easily ingest it along with the other dried grasses, and yes, poison hemlock is deadly to horses.
I grew up familiar with gueen ann's lace, but only found out this year that poison hemlock looks almost alike it also called wild carrot. Queen Ann has hairy legs. I thank you for that info. Great video.
Yup! I'm going to be careful this summer in the yard from now on!
We have a poisen hemlock on our property this year and I've been reading recently how to dispose of it without issue.
Can you share the article or tell us how to dispose of it? Thanks.
Perhaps try a blow torch to destroy it and after drench the area with vinegar.
Thanks - I knew about the danger of water hemlock but having grown up on the prairie, don’t think I ever saw it. Does it grow only in damp areas?
You are correct, as the name suggests that it mainly grows in wet, marshy or damp areas.
Yup. We have no marshy areas, I have never seen it either. I KNOW my wild carrot though😊
I posted on your last video on: "currents" and I thought this one would be about Hemlock. I forgot about Water Hemlock. The Hemlock in this area of Oklahoma, grows like a white carpet!!! It is spreading all over Texas, and Oklahoma. The ranchers can't cut it back fast enough. If this was not You Tube, I would post some photos of 20 acres of nothing but, poison Hemlock. But, No photos allowed!!! (🦄 Here is a nice Unicorn!!! Isn't that lovely...) Thank You, for your work and the tips on foraging for medicineal plants. I have a full set of "Roy Tory Peterson's" field guides on almost everthing from plants, rocks, birds, snakes, etc. And it has two giant books of color plates. The collection was $4400.00 as they are all signed with signature cards. The field guides are soft leather and will fit in a small backpack. Peterson was trained by; "John J. Audubon." I use the books for reference even though today, apps are available for matching any plant, rock, or tree with a simple cell phone photo. I would rather look them up in a book. I am old!!!👴 So, stay away from Hemlock, it is bad news!!! Brother James OSB
Poison Parsnip is another fun one. If you like feeling like your skin is melting off, highly recommended …
There’s a lot of potential in psychedelics, I can’t wait to try any of them mushrooms specifically but it’s just so hard to find a reliable source over here, I’ll be glad if anyone can be of help.
Psilocybin has been a game changer in my life! I prefer micro dosing a few times a week now that I got the dose just right! Seasonal depression is a thing and shrooms can most definitely help..
Psychedelic drugs should be used when you’re in the right state of mind, a lot of people abuse them.
@@Michaelsbrownie
One of the most peaceful experience I've ever had..I really need to get my hands on some DMT
I’ve tried a lot and since the first time i tried it, I said “it’s a crime against humanity to make psychedelic illegal”
@Daniel Johnson
The moment you started feeling this way you already having a bad trip..
Try not to think about it that way
Is this related to hogweed?
They are in the same family.
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@@HealthAndHomestead damn, I hate that plant family lol
Thank you so much for pointing out this dangerous plant. I have shared this video with people I care about. I don’t know if I have encountered this plant before because it looks so harmless, who would pay it any attention! I have gotten rashes before and don’t know what I brushed up against. We have poison ivy in the area, which no matter how hard I try, I can’t distinguish it from other harmless weeds.
Just walking through a field of hemlock can cause increased heart rate, shortness of breath and even pain as the worse anxiety and as severe as having a heart attack.
It happened to me. I thought I was having a heart attack.
Got some pretty judgie ppl on your channel here.
You made a comment that EVERYONE found insanely stupid. What did you expect?
There are some real nutcases in this comment section.
These are popping up all over my garden and backyard....I've tried plant apps to identify as I was worried about giant hogweed. It was identified as wild carrot or this flower you speak of. Regardless I'm chopping all of them down today! We have 2 dogs who love to eat leaves and grass! I noticed my puppy going for one of these by my step this morning and this video popped up! I got her out of there before she could start chomping and now have my tools ready and fire to burn it! Thankyou!!!!
Please don't burn it!!! My neighbor almost died from someone burning poison ivy. I sure would not want to inhale hemlock particles. Kind regards, please be safe!
Hogsweed also looks like Hemlock... It doesn't have the deadly Cicutoxin, but can put a hurtin' on you as well.
Yeah, it can cause crazy burns and sensitivity to sunlight
Friendly suggestion for the future would be to explain how to ID the plant. Thanks for the video 😊