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Leaves are dark glossy green, fern-like, triangular, and 3-4 times pinnately compound (as shown in the picture). Right now is a great time to identify the plant, because currently, poison hemlock is somewhere between 2 to 5 feet - with the potential to reach heights of 10 to 12 feet in moist conditions. The first step to controlling poison hemlock is being able to recognize the plant. Poison hemlock seeds are viable for only 3-5 years. Of course, if this plant has been present on your property for a while, it may take you up to 3-5 years to completely eradicate and exhaust the soil’s seed bank. Now in 2018, I did not have a single plant bolt up and all it took was patience, botany and a machete. In the spring of 2017, I had a few more plants bolt up (leftover 2015 seeds that germinated in 2016), so I simply repeated what I did the year before to control it. By cutting the plant down after flowering, I eliminated its potential to produce more seeds.Īt this time, the plants did not have enough reserves to shoot up another flowering stalk. One week after the plants flowered, I simply chopped them down at the base and discarded the plants over the hill and away from livestock. Since poison hemlock is a biennial (a plant that takes two years to grow from seed to fruition and die - this is where botany comes in to play), I used a little patience and waited for the plant to flower. When spring of 2016 rolled around, the amount of junk weeds that appeared along my property was heartbreaking, and, of course, poison hemlock was among the junk weeds. In the summer of 2015, the county township asked if they could spread soil along my property to help build-up and stabilize the road since the road was 4-5 feet higher than my pasture.Īt the time, I said yes, but I did not realize the soil source came from road ditches that the county had been clearing. I completely eradicated it from my farm in two years using nothing but a machete, a little patience and botany. Poison hemlock can be controlled quite easily.
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When consumed, poisoning symptoms appear rather quickly which includes: bloody feces, vomiting, paralysis, trembling, loss of coordination, pupil dilation, coma and eventually death from respiratory failure. Typically, grazing animals will avoid poison hemlock because of its unpalatable taste unless there is little other feed or forages available or when it’s consumed through hay.
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Poison hemlock is highly toxic to humans and livestock when ingested - either in its vegetative growth stage and when dried.
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He had no idea this invasive plant was on his farm and quite frankly, never gave it much thought. He quickly replied, “Well, I guess both.”Īfter pointing it out and describing the effects to him, he mentioned that his cows were “acting funny” the other day and thought they got into something.
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While making our way there, we saw a farm selling hay, so I stopped to ask how much since I was running low this year due to the lack of forage production at the beginning of the growing season.Īs I was pulling up to the house, I couldn’t help but notice all the 1-foot poison hemlock plants, so I jokingly asked the farmer if he was in the business of growing poison hemlock or milking cows. While driving back from Cincinnati to Marietta, with my family, we stop to explore the Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio. I thought poison hemlock awareness was increasing significantly, but then reality hit me.