Water Hemlock Research Paper

Water hemlock is considered one of North America’s most toxic plants, water hemlock is highly poisonous to humans. These people of genus went to go check it out. People die from it every day and people have cancer from it. Water hemlock has small white flowers that grow in the plant. Water hemlock may be confused with poison hemlock because of the similarity in names however, these two are different plants that cause different types of poisoning. Animals could eat water hemlock early in spring and graze on the green seed heads later in the season. Animals have been poisoned when the roots are exposed by cleaning ditches or when animal tramp in the streambeds.