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Hemlock.

ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
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Is this hemlock by any chance.
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  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    edited May 2020


    ????
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Sadly cannot see nearly enough detail  in your pics to be able to give any id accurately.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Conium  maculatum.....common name hemlock or poison hemlock.
    One of the easiest checks is the stem.

    Quote www....."The stem is smooth, hairless, grooved, green and usually covered in purple/red spots and streaks and can reach up to eight feet tall."

    Sadly cannot even see the stem.


    https://www.google.com/search?q=conium+maculatum+stem&client=firefox-b-d&hl=en-US&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjC1-7Crc3pAhWIecAKHUDFCysQ_AUoAnoECBQQBA&biw=1920&bih=938
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    I will take a better picture tommoro. When it’s light.
    thanks for the input anyway. I think hemlock is very often confused with other ums.
    it just shouted hemlock to me.
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68



    Took some one more shots.
    i am pretty sure it’s hemlock. What do you think?
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That looks more like Cow parsley to me ... IME hemlock is a much more substantial plant with purplish spots and mottling on the stems and the flowers heads tend to be slightly domed rather than flat. 
    The most telling difference is that as well as the purple mottling the stems of hemlock are smooth. Your photos are not very clear but I’m pretty sure I can see vertical ridges on the stems typical of Anthriscus/ cow parsley. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    Right.thanks.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Thedarkone said:



    Took some one more shots.
    i am pretty sure it’s hemlock. What do you think?
    Look at the stem.
    It is nothing like "The stem is smooth, hairless, grooved, green and usually covered in purple/red spots and streaks "

    Pic still not clear...but to me it looks as if it is ridged and hairy .
    I am pretty sure it is not Hemlock!
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Leaves (what I can see of them)  look wrong for hemlock too ... it’s not hemlock. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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