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Maybe they are from the same family? A lot of members of the carrot family produce those lovely umbrels of flowers.

... invader suggest it is rampant everywhere, but I don't know if it can survive a prairie winter. We have Valerian in our garden, which resembles the Hogweed in some ways, at least from the photos. Valerian has flower clusters, rather than an umbrella of blooms, and it flowers every year. Oh, yes, ...

This stuff made the news here tonight too. I had seen it on the news, last year I think, but the story came from BC. Seems we have it growing here, and one viewer on the CTV web site said it has been here forever. Either way, it's best to avoid the stuff.

Brian

My grandson and I were playing with the dried up weeds one fall before I knew what it was. Lucky there was no sap left it it. It looks really interesting and attractive to kids and was really tall - at least 6 feet and we found a patch of it along 16-mile Creek in Milton area. I'm hoping that since ...

Last Year, some neighbours dug one out and put it in their garden.

It was indeed big.

The city came and removed it

Now found in a Ottawa park and a private property.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/20 ... 00146.html

Latest report is from the Globe and Mail today. Pretty much the same information tho. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/giant-weed-that-can-cause-blindness-popping-up-in-ontario-bc/article1635075/ On the way down #48 Hwy., where it runs thru the Gum Swamp *close to Mount Albert*...

Its really enormous. It looks a bit like a huge coarse Queen Annes Lace, but the purple stripes on the stem are different. And it IS huge and it does stink a bit. It grows in ditches, wet sites, waste areas and its not common, but is becoming more so. Some people have a really severe reaction to it....

I saw this on a CBC newscast last week.
BEWARE - this is a very unpleasant plant that can impart a very nasty reaction - poisonous!
~BBQ

Story in todays Ottawa Sun

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/20 ... 77346.html also about the Renfrew area.

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