Hemlock Water Dropwort

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Apiales

Apiaceae (Carrot)

Alexanders, Bur Chervil, Burnet-saxifrage, Common Hogweed, Cow Parsley, Edible Carrot, Fool's Watercress, Garden Angelica, Garden Parsley, Giant Hogweed, Greater Burnet-saxifrage, Ground Elder, Hemlock, Lesser Marshwort, Lesser Water Parsnip, Parsley Water Dropwort, Pignut, Pink Masterwort, Rock Samphire, Rough Chervil, Sanicle, Sea Holly, Sweet Cicely, Upright Hedge Parsley, Wild Angelica, Wild Carrot, Wild Fennel, Wild Parsnip

Flower

Perennial

125 centimetres tall

Ditches, grassland, marshes, meadows, mudflats, ponds, riverbanks, wetland.

White umbels, usually with lower bracts, up to 4cm wide.

Cylindrical fruits, ridged, 2 styles, up to 6mm across.

The basal leaves are pinnate with 3 to 4 leaflets. They are broadly oval in shape and toothed. The stem leaves have 2 to 3 leaflets and are not as broad as the basal leaflets. The stems themselves are hollow. In my personal opinion, the leaflets look a little similar to parsley.

When mature the smell of these plants are said to resemble that of parsley.

Balder Root, Ban Dock, Beldrum, Bendock, Bilders, Cowbane, Dead Tongue, Deadman's Cress, Dean's Fingers, Deathin, Eltrot, Five-fingered Root, Five-fingered Rot, Hemlock Dropwort, Hemlock Wort, Horsebane, Water Dropwort, Water Hemlock, Water Lovage, Water Sapwort, Wild Rue, Yellow Water Dropwort.

Occasionally seen