The lady I read about came in from weeding and decided to shower because she wasn’t feeling well. Within hours, she was in hospital. In her case-high sensitivity and high exposure-the shower saved her life by stopping any more exposure.

I thought you were wise in telling the Queen Anne story, which helps folks remember. Also liked that you showed one flower at a time, which is less confusing for the novice to learn. Good job.

There is another plant that closely resembles both Queen Anne's Lace and Hemlock. It's called Cow Parsley, and it is harmless. You might want to include it in another video, as all three plants can be easily confused. 🙂

Omg! As a city girl living in an apartment and now learning about plant medicine. I just wanna say; From my heart to yours, a huge thank you for this very valuable information. 🙏😊❤👍

Thank you so much brother! This is how you do an identification guide. Nothing about the benefits of the plant, just raw assed this is how to tell the difference.

Brigette Mars said that she was taught to consume a lot of coffee because it is a respiratory stimulant and poison hemlock is a respiratory suppressant. She told a story of some teenagers who were on life support and she was contacted by the state health department for advice. She suggested it and it worked.

Wonderful public service announcement ! Thank you !

Lol, knowing that you can absorb it threw the skin, watching you holding onto it and waving it all around was driving me crazy, I just kept wanting to wash your hands 😆Great video, really great descriptions and comparisons. Thankfully I have a hard time doing these videos because I haven't come across any poison hemlock anywhere here, but at least if I do come across it someday, I will have your video description in my head.

GREAT INFORMATIVE VIDEO!! I live in a rural area that I KNOW has both of these plants and this video has been the BEST I've ever seen on telling the difference between the two. The Queen Anne story points will definitely stay with me! Thank you!

Great information, thank you. The plant comparison was especially useful and provided points of easy reference. Definitely appreciate you sharing this information.

The West Coast native Queen Anne’s Lace does not have the single purple flower in the middle. The ones that do-they commonly grow together-are introduced like 45% of all herbaceous plants in British Columbia (grasses are 80% introduced). Poison hemlock can be identified by the four chambers visible in the cross-section of the stem (just makes sure not to get the juice on you). Out here on the Coast we have a nasty introduced invasive -Giant Hogweed-which is also a member of the carrot family. It looks a lot like the native Cow Parsnip. Both grow to about eight feet tall and feature a huge carrot-style florescence a foot and a half across-quite stunning, actually. Unfortunately, Hogweed is a dangerous plant: it’s juice reacts with sunlight and, if you get it on your skin it results in serious burns -yes, “burns” which then become wicked scabs and, eventually, scars. And there have been tragic incidences where children look through a segment of hollow stem -playing pirate with a ‘telescope’ -except if they get the juice, even a little bit around or in their eyes, they can and sometimes do go blind-permanently. Needless to say, word got out and an eradication industry has developed. A landscaping friend showed me the insides of her arms where she’d been hacking down and got ‘juiced’-pretty wicked scars. She was very pissed off. Her long, svelte, beautiful arms and golden tan are permanenty scarred. Unfortunately, the native Cow Parsnip-which is not poisonous-is being collaterally wiped out. In general, all members of the carrot family are toxic to some extent-domestic carrot foliage will give you a tummy ache and domestic parsnips foliage will make you sick-yet parsley foliage is actually healthy (which makes me wonder which part is toxic.

This was very informative and easy to remember. Thank You

Great video! I almost picked a huge bunch of hemlock thinking it was queen annes lace but stopped bcuz I couldn’t find the red bloom on any of the flowers…phew! That saved me! Found out later from a more experienced gardening friend that it was poison hemlock. So glad I knew that one trait…! Loved to learn about the other traits as well!

Matt is touching it, omg. I removed some of this stuff after it had gone to seed at the edge of my yard and did my best to avoid touching any, but the wind caught one that was in the jaws of my grabber tool and caused it to swing around and brush against my bicep and I got a hell of a rash from it, similar to poison ivy.

I think this is the best video I've seen on teaching plant differentiation. Thank you for the education! 🌼

FWIW I had a bunch of hemlock with big white umbels in a fairly shady spot in my yard, so must not necessarily need lots of direct sunlight. The first spring in a new house brought lots of surprises growing. Beautiful alliums, but also surprise poison! 😂

Don't know how many vids I watched on this and still couldn't tell the difference. This was a great vid. Well Done.

Another plant that some folks confuse with Queen Anne's Lace at first glance is Yarrow. The flower heads are not the usual perfectly round shape of QAL, are not single stalks, and the leaves are very different, too. From a distance they can look similar, though.

Loved your analogy with the queen’ s lace and legs! Well done! Thank you! Wishing you all the best!👍

I've been watching your videos for awhile now, and lately I've had my young son watching them. He also finds them entertaining and informative. Aged 10. We both believe you do a great job explaining without droning on, and your videos are packed full of useful information. Thanks very much for sharing your time.

I think Hedge Parsley looks very similar to Poison Hemlock. I have some in my yard, and the flowers are almost identical, but the leaves are different.

What an interesting, and cute story about Queen's lace. The hairy legs cracked me up. Great job! Thank you! ✌🏼🙏🏼🖖🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Queen Ann's lace also had a slight carrot smell when you break the stem.

I hope you immediately washed your hands. I almost picked some poison hemlock today, but sonething told me bot to because it could be poisonous, so i came inside ans looked it up here. Thank you so much for the information!!!

Very interesting. I like how you wove some history in there. Now I will be able to recognize them. Thanks.

Thank you! I just picked a wild carrot. The leaves when rubbed together smell quite carrot-y, as does the white root which is very tough and fibrous.

Excellent video! It made me research which states it grows in. Now I know it grows all over Oregon, my home state. I had no idea!!! Thank you!

What a great teacher you are!! I will remember Queen Anne has hairy legs and no bruises.. Oh my goodness! Great content!! I subbed!! And the drop of blood that might be there… plus how the shield is on the bottom of the ‘flowering stem’… WOW thank you!!

I love your story and description of queen Ann’s lace

Awesome presentation! Excellent visuals and the Queen Anne story make it easy for young and old to remember.

I like the stories of Queen Anne, especially the funny hairy legs.... I am also surprised you are touching the Hemlock, but your information is super helpful, thank you!

That was really informative. Thank you so much. I never knew what it looked like. I now need to investigate poison oak. I'm unfamiliar with that too.

We are seeing an explosion of Poison Hemlock here in South Central Pennsylvania this year. It's everywhere along the roadways and it's a new infestation. I cleared about 30 plants from behind our shed last weekend...very scary stuff. Some plants were 8' tall and huge. Thanks for this great comparison.

THANK YOU, MATT! I knew what Queen Anne's Lace looks like but not Hemlock. I agree with Margorie- I like the stories to help ID the difference. Great job!

Huge thanks! It's everywhere in Oklahoma and I never knew it was so poisonous!

One thing you can take to help if poison hemlock is consumed is activated charcoal. It's not a cure-all, but it might help at the very least.

This is a brilliant video! Thank you!

To my eye, queens Anne's lace looks completely different from poison hemlock but if you just go by the leaves and flowers, cow parsley looks frighteningly similiar until you check out the stems which are nothing alike. 1st rule of foraging: If you aren't absolutely 1000% sure, do not put it in your mouth.

Thank you. The visual differences are helpful.

Fantastic verbal explanation and visual. Thanks so much!

Thanks man this was so awesome of a guide

Thanks so much for this video. Very helpful.

I have been trying to ID this for a while now but now I know I have Hemlock growing everywhere. Going forward I will start using cloves for pulling it.

Very informative and easy to remember. Thank You!

Thank you for explaining this.

Thank you so much for this! So very informative. Please do more of these videos👍

Enjoyed hearing the story behind the name as well as the information, thanks!

Loved this. The queen Anne description made it super easy to remember.

Many thanks - much respect!

Excellent tutorial I was able to understand easily Thank you

Luv this show. Easy explanation good video quality.

Fantastic explanation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you, extremely useful information.

Thank you so so so much!!

Thank you, very clear

What a very thorough explanation, thank you! Saw some at the lake yesterday, didnt touch it cause i wasnt sure. So tomorrow im going back to check it out! 😊

Another easy way to ID this stuff is when winter sets in. Though the stalks will turn brown and dry out, the leaves nearest the ground, especially from young plants will stay green though most of the winter while all other plants have gone brown. It can be sprayed with poison easier then too as the poison will not hit any other plants. I'm in the Chicagoland area BTW.

That was excellent! Thank you

You did the BEST JOB. Unfortunately I have the poison hemlock! Thank you for making this video otherwise I would of never known!

Thank you! Now I have to spread the word.

Great video!

Thank you!

Good video. Thank you.

Very informative... Thank you!

Thank you! The other videos ive watched were confusing!! I live in Arkansas and see both alot, i cant wait til tomorrow, im gonna go out and see the differences again now that i know for sure!

Man this is fantastic. Great queen anne story. I will never forget that

thank you so much. Using several points of identification was very helpful. I'm confident I can tell the difference now.

Thank you for the info. God bless you

Bro ... brilliant methodology of teaching

they were just known as cow poison where I came from. Easily identified because the cows would not touch it. To confuse the issue even more, we also had carraway growing in the same fields as the Hemlock and wild carrot.

I wish to see more of the leaves for comparison too.

This is the best video I’ve seen on distinguishing the two. Most I have seen are confusing, not this one with the story time regarding Queen Ann’s lace. Thank you! I think the one I was looking at nearby is Queen’s Ann’s Lace. It’s everywhere here.

Very good video thanks 😊

wow I just pulled by gloveless hand a bunch of the hemlock today I had no clue thanks for posting

Good video on the topic. Thank you.

Great job!

Thank you. My back lawn in in full with these plants. I researched first ...am cautious. Work at pulling up. And your video shows exactly what mine resemble. I'm in the city. I have fought them off for years but not ever this many. Trying to remove them before going to seed But. They make a beautiful garden for birds and bees.maybe 🦋

Thankyou, very helpful,I have what I believe is hemlock in my garden in the UK.

That is crazy how something so beautiful and magnificent can be so deadly!

Wish would have shown us the difference in the leaves.

White flowers that look like a rounded dome, smooth stem, blotches, stay away. Nice video. Also water hemlock looks similar but with more of a rounded dome flower arrangement and the same smooth stem and blotches. I got some good pictures of the water hemlock here in southern Alberta while canoeing at a lake shore. I pay closer attention to the harmful plants as identifying them is most important.

that was great .thanks!

Good to know. Thanks

I do no know why this was recommended, but it was great! New subscriber earned!

Thank you.

Really nice work sharing this info - I think I have something else out back and I need to check out white yarrow next... just really glad to know its NOT the hemlock - for sure - not the queen either. THANK YOU!

Excellent

Great video! We have tons of what I thought is poison hemlock on our property, so I am going to go verify now!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought some colored wild carrots from TJ's and I saved the heads and planted them into the ground of my garden and they turned out to be Queen Anne's Lace.They are lovely and attract bees. I love them.

How the hell are you not effected handling the poisonous one?

Excellent explanation. Thank you!

The pikes guarding the queen is a perfect example! I never knew the difference until today! 👏

Really interesting! Thanks. (Worried you weren't using gloves with all that Hemlock handling, though.)

❤ awesome video

Genius (thank you )

Thanks for the vid. Brushed my arm against Poison Hemlock once. Lesson learned.

wear glove when removing. dont burn becaue you can breath in the poison. I really like your queen anne story- makes id easy to remember. There is a plant here in Texas, where all plants bite back, that looks like hemlock and has a sticky burr for a seed. trying to identify the burr generating weed.

Very good video it's helpful to find the difference between the two plants l wonder if there is a difference between the leaves

I read about that lady and I knew about Queen Anne the Little flower in the and all of her lace but I didn't know about her hairy legs or the pikes that guarded her. Very important points when you're looking at something like that is to go with more than one visual id