For those wishing to restore wetlands, this is a great plant native to North America... providing your neighbors have no children or pets...Read More, you have no children or pets, providing no children or pets visit you, and providing everybody else is familiar with what this deadly plant looks like so they can stay away from it.
This is by far the most violently toxic plant growing on the continent of North America. The plant contains the toxin cicutoxin. Even the smallest digested amount attacks the central nervous system. It is an incredibly powerful convulsant.
It is a member of the Parsley family and is closely related to the plant that poisoned Socrates. First year seedlings look like wild carrot.
I love native plants BUT this one was removed from my property.
For those wishing to restore wetlands, this is a great plant native to North America... providing your neighbors have no children or pets...Read More