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[Coachman]

Just found this on Yahoo. I guess this is one to keep an eye out for.

Giant Hogweed

A Google image I found:

[chilli]

http://www.niagarafishing.net/forums/index...&hl=hogweed

[Coachman]

So it has been noted already. Well it can't hurt to bring it up again. Stuff looks deadly.

I saw some jimson weed the other day too. Every year there's at least a few reports of kids using it for cheap highs and winding up in trouble. Maybe we need a sticky post listing names and identifications of plants that we should be careful around.

[chilli]

I have been using a Peterson's field guide to search for edible food and it lists many of the poisonous plants that can be mistaken for edible ones. It should be in every outdoorspersons collection.

[Coachman]

And another one hit the news. I don't know if there's much around Ontario, but I'd say watch for it.

Wild Parsnip in N.S.

Wild Parsnip in Ontario

Some more images

[chilli]

There's plenty of it around and it's spreading like wild fire. As far as I know the hogweed isn't invasive (spreading uncontrollably). The media also called it giant cow parsnip but cow parsnip although similar; is a different species.