…I should ask my mom if poison ivy affects her. pretty sure it does, though, and my allergies are worse. maybe I’m first in the line. too bad I don’t have a kid to find out.
I remember at some summer jobs way back as a teen that I would literally sit in patches of poison ivy at times to eat lunch, because I didn’t care to check and just found a spot in the ditch that looked comfy
now, wild parsnip blisters after getting sap on you and not cleaning it before exposure to sunlight… that shit is gross
I’m not exactly a botanist but as I understand it, hogweed / Queen Anne’s Lace / hemlock are all similar plants, and parsnip is a less similar plant
I don’t know if other colours are possible, but one differentiating feature I am aware of is that parsnip has yellow flowers and all the others have white. and only Queen Anne’s Lace is not harmful
…I should ask my mom if poison ivy affects her. pretty sure it does, though, and my allergies are worse. maybe I’m first in the line. too bad I don’t have a kid to find out.
I remember at some summer jobs way back as a teen that I would literally sit in patches of poison ivy at times to eat lunch, because I didn’t care to check and just found a spot in the ditch that looked comfy
now, wild parsnip blisters after getting sap on you and not cleaning it before exposure to sunlight… that shit is gross
I’ve heard people with Native American ancestry tend to have immunity to poison ivy, but I’m not sure if that’s backed by science.
Also, if you got burned by wild parsnip… that was hemlock, a poisonous lookalike…
oh, no, it was definitely parsnip. it’s a big issue in Ontario
Interesting, I’ve never heard that. Is that the same plant as wild carrot/Queen Anne’s Lace?
I’m not exactly a botanist but as I understand it, hogweed / Queen Anne’s Lace / hemlock are all similar plants, and parsnip is a less similar plant
I don’t know if other colours are possible, but one differentiating feature I am aware of is that parsnip has yellow flowers and all the others have white. and only Queen Anne’s Lace is not harmful
but yeah they all generally look very similar
https://www.ontario.ca/page/giant-hogweed
https://www.ontario.ca/page/wild-parsnip
https://www.ontario.ca/document/weed-identification-guide-ontario-crops/wild-carrot
https://www.ontario.ca/document/weed-identification-guide-ontario-crops/spotted-water-hemlock
also I just want to point out that do I ever love having a provincial website with resources like this
That’s interesting, I did not know wild parsnip was a separate plant. We must not have that where I’m from.
And yeah, clearly Ontario is doing something right