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Recognition
- Grows IN or next to water (ditches, marsh edges)
- White flower umbels — resembles watercress, parsley
- Hollow chambered rootstock (characteristic!)
- Roots smell like parsley or carrot
Dangerous lookalikes
- MOST TOXIC PLANT IN EUROPE — cicutoxin
- Convulsions, respiratory failure, coma, death
- Small amount of root can kill a human
Never eat a plant you can't identify with certainty. If in doubt, leave it.
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