NOUN
- tall erect highly poisonous Eurasiatic perennial herb locally abundant in marshy areas
How To Use water hemlock In A Sentence
- 'ache' refer not to the harmless water parsnip but to the poisonous water hemlock or cowbane. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
- Like Homo sapiens, animals take important cues from smell and know to stay away from flowers like the dreaded Douglas water hemlock, whose broad white blossoms contain coniine, which is deadly.
- Some other wildflowers are white-flowered bog orchid, California grass-of-Parnassus, Sierra gentian, Plumas alpine aster, western sneezeweed, and the highly toxic western water hemlock.
- The common name for water hemlock is the cowbane.’ Spotted Hemlock