Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)- It will burn your skin and it is all around you!
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- June 19, 2020 - This is one of the top three plants that you and your family should know, even if you don’t spend much time in nature. Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is an introduced weed that is common along roadsides and in waste places. The sap can cause severe burning and blistering. It is often confused with Poison Hemlock, which shares many of the same habitats. It is said that Poison Hemlock will kill you, Wild Parsnip will just make you wish that you were dead. Learn this plant and teach it to your children.
So glad to find your site! I just finally found a medical provider that diagnosed me with having a wild parsnip burn. I suppose I got it from coming in contact through my husbands clothes after he cleaned out a fence row. I have been given numerous medicines, steroids, shots and creams to no avail. Being a retired medical professional, I had never heard of it. I have been miserable and have a 3 rd degree burn on my back which has been a horrible experience. Thank God for this wonderful Nurse Practitioner who had been in the profession for years and had seen cases recently diagnosing me immediately. She is treating me with Silvadene cream for burns and highly advised to not get outside until healing us under control. I will have scars but I am already feeling like a part human again. I have had surgeries, childbirth and other illnesses but nothing to compare to this! I want to warn others to not get close to this plant!
Parsnip is my favorite kind of dangerous plant, so thanks for telling me more about it!
I’m 38 and still have scars from my encounter with poison parsnip at age 17. A local farmer paid me to walk a small hay field and pull thistles. I walked right through poison parsnip without knowing what it was. I even pulled a flower off the stem that was caught in the crook of my elbow. Anywhere I touched the flower formed a painful blister. Anytime a blister popped the liquid inside would run and cause more blisters anywhere it touched healthy skin. It was horrific.
Here in the UK you can find carrots with the shoots / leaves still attached in grocery stores, but parsnips are always trimmed to the root only. This is why.
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Totally didn't know! I can imagine myself traipsing through an area like that without thinking about it, and then not understanding what happened. Really glad to have learned this, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thank you so much for this series.
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Do you have a video on the best way to kill off this plant ? I’ve got a vendetta with this stuff !!
Wild parsnip usually likes pastures/fields/roadsides correct? Been trying to find it and document it in my notes. Haven't had any luck and it's even more difficult due to the flowers being dead this time of year
Fields for sure, I saw a field full of em in person.