CLOSE Poison Hemlock can be difficult to identify and it can cause respiratory failure in mammals. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details. Buzz60 It’s one of the deadliest plants in North America, and it’s all over Ohio. Great, you were probably just now getting comfortable being outside following more than a year of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. But now a plant called poison hemlock is “spreading like wildlife and by water and flood plains,” according to Jason Hartschuh, Ohio State University Extension agent for Crawford County. However, unlike a pandemic which is usually a once-in-a-century thing, Ohio has always had poisonous plants and they don’t even have 17-year cycles like cicadas (the other thing that may have kept Ohioans inside lately). Poison hemlock and wild parsnips have been around for a few years and caused problems. Poison hemlock is dangerous if you eat it or rub it in your eyes, while wild…
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