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Medicine Woman

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Me first. DH threw this at me. It looks very similar to parsley but the smell is off. What do y’all think it is?
 

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Don't taste it. Could be poison hemlock. Parsley/carrot family is kinda scary. "There is no wild carrot" is a saying to keep foragers from killing themselves with hemlock
Agree with this and hemlock likes wet places-think river banks, marsh, etc.

Though in the pictures the stems look to be hairy, hemlock is smooth, hollow and can have red/purple-ish streaks, splatter etc.

But yeah, I don't eat anything that I don't know where it came from as there are too many look-a-likes out there
 

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It’s hairy. Also DH says it gets some little red flowers but I know where he found it and I will keep my eyes open. Plant identification is something I would want to improve upon actually. My studies didn’t pay as close attention to this as I would have liked.
 
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