They are very different, but make no mistake about it: invasive wild parsnip is a nasty problem.That said, I'd rather deal w/ my wild parsnip invasion than to have to encounter giant hogweed

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Each year I am noticing it spread further away from roads

Real bad in NY. DOT sprayed the roadsides but stopped because the woke projects are more important. Out 6-8 feet along some ROWs.

Wild Parsnip will make Poison Ivy seem like a Boy Scout !


( and you may quote me on that ! )

Yes, the worst is when people disc trim it without knowing what it is

We have this stuff here it grows all over my yard and everywhere. Called wild celery here. I touch it a lot and never had a reaction. Must not be the same. My bees love it so I leave it alone.




We also have a lot of Poison Hemlock. It grows in the yard too. Looks almost the same.

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Holy moly, that giant hogweed is almost like a tree

Yours must be similar to our native species, as I am just across the Berring Straight on the west coast of Alaska, not that far from Siberia.

Here are the Water Hemlock that we have here. Highly poisonous. It looks similar to the cow parsnips. They say dont eat the cow parsnips because the Hemlock grows with it and many cant tell the difference when its young and eaten.

Some kids in a nearby village died eating it awhile back. I imagine you have it there in Siberia too.

My bees also like it. That kind of scares me, but lucky for me no poison honey yet.

Thats quite a diverse botanical garden you have there.

I once broke a stem of the Hemlock and sniffed it out of curiosity/stupidity. It smelled very bad, strong, with of a turpentine or pine sol smell, and one whiff made me queasy with a headache afterwards. I won't do that again.

And that's good to know the bees wont kill me making honey out of it. They get busier on the Fireweed when comes into bloom and dont hit the Hemlock as hard then.

Once wild parsnip season ended I moved right onto buckthorn removal. Always something..

One thing I am sure a lot of you also notice is that it's often hard to get neighbors to understand invasives & try to take care of them on their property so they don't spread to your property. Whether garlic mustard, wild parsnip, buckthorn, honeysuckle etc, many either don't understand or maybe don't care. Not everyone is interested in learning about what's on their property and some don't have time.

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It's probably too old of a link Bob; it used to work

It's getting to be about that time of year to spray wild parsnip

It's in full bloom here up and down the road spread by village/county/state mowers

Yeah a lot of the mowers are now rotary instead of sickle and they spray that junk farther

Getting a hold in my neck of the woods

At least it doesn't grow in the woods.