Cow parsnip also has sap that can irritate the skin similar to giant hogweed, though it's less toxic. The plant is “very cold-hardy, and is most abundant in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska ...

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A parsnip is like a pasty-faced, overweight carrot, ancient and unrefined. The difference is hardly one of pedigree: The carrot began as the skinny white root of the Queen Anne's lace plant, not ...

Cow parsnip’s flowers are also white with clusters, but its leaves are thicker and about 2-2½ feet across. The plant also grows along roadsides, but unlike poison hemlock, ...

Cow parsnip is known in our field guides as Heracleum lanatum, although it sometimes has other names. The flowers are typically displayed in big, flattish inflorescences called “umbels,” each ...