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Is this poison hemlock?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,052
    Looks like “Alexander’s” to me ...Smyrnium olusatrum ... introduced to Britain by the Romans (hence its name) who grew it as a vegetable. 

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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,295
    I agree with Dove. Hemlock has fine cut leaves and white flowers. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Thanks Dove an nutcutlet. I assume I should treat as a weed? It's pretty quick growing and seems invasive.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,052
    Unless you want a ‘wild’ type garden I’d pull it up before it seeds (although the flowers are good for pollinating insects so you could leave it a week or do then pull it up). 

    Learn to recognise the leaves as there’ll be lots of seeds in the soil that didnt germinate this year so may do so next year, and for a few more years to come. If you learn to spot them when they’re tiddlers they’ll be easy to hoe or handweed out.  :)

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





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