Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Water Hemlock

Cicuta douglasii

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

5 Comments

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

You are correct ForestDragon, I got confirmation from the Orlando Wetlands themselves....thanks again

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 9 years ago

I wouldn't rule out the hemlock. It is a water loving plant. Wild carrot prefers dry fields and waste places.

Do you have closer views of the leaves, stems and blooms of this plant or full image of the whole plant? It looks quite large for wild carrot and I think the blooms look slightly different shaped.

Wild carrot has delicate, fern-like leaves that smell like carrot when crushed. https://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?...

Here is a plant I found (Cicuta maculata): http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/122...

This was found growing in a local park, right by the water. It was a very tall plant. Note how the plant branches.

Take a look and see what you think.

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Thanks Hayley for suggestions, I went with Queen Anne's Lace as it looks most like it and as these were intentionally planted in a wetlands I assume theat the hemlock's are out as they would hurt the animals

HayleyBoBailey
HayleyBoBailey 9 years ago

Also Angelica and lovage have a similar look. Too narrow it down, you could use a key to the genera of the carrot family and think about details you can remember -- was the plant hairy? Were the stems hollow? Etc.

HayleyBoBailey
HayleyBoBailey 9 years ago

There are a lot of plants that look like this, hmm... Queen Anne's lace, cow parsnip, poison hemlock, water hemlock?

James McNair
Spotted by
James McNair

Florida, USA

Spotted on May 29, 2014
Submitted on May 30, 2014

Related Spottings

Spotted Water Hemlock Spotted Water Hemlock water hemlock Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock

Nearby Spottings

Spotting Spotting Duck potato (arrowhead) Narrow leaved sunflower
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team