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Have you seen this plant?
nyis ^ | 05-23-2017 | crz

Posted on 05/23/2017 7:31:49 AM PDT by crz

Another invasive plant brought here from overseas.


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To: Red Badger

Oh, yes. It’s starting to bloom around here - we also have Wild Parsnip which isn’t quite as awful, but close. I’m always careful when tromping through our woods and fields - I still have a scar on me from Stinging Nettle, Fer Pete’s Sake - and that’s mild compared to these two monsters!


81 posted on 05/23/2017 11:00:32 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Will Round-up kill it or is it like spraying water ?...........


82 posted on 05/23/2017 11:02:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Red Badger

I had a very bad experience with poison ivy this time last year. This stuff sounds even worse.


83 posted on 05/23/2017 11:04:14 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: tumblindice

I think this stuff will kill you................


84 posted on 05/23/2017 11:07:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: PLMerite

Better wear a respirator if you are planning to burn it, series. I didn’t breathe in poison ivy but if you do, you can be in very deep kim chi.
I’d call someone who knows what they’re doing if you see this stuff.


85 posted on 05/23/2017 11:10:37 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: crz

Fortunately, giant hogweed has a limited area: New York as well as in Connecticut; the District of Columbia; Illinois; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Ohio; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Washington; Wisconsin; and Ontario and Vancouver Island in Canada.


86 posted on 05/23/2017 11:14:28 AM PDT by upchuck (Liberals created facebook and twitter and they were ruined by it ~ h/t dp0622)
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To: PLMerite

Oh ya? Well then. Chew on this..

https://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/alb/


87 posted on 05/23/2017 11:39:01 AM PDT by crz
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Whats the name of that stuff that got loose in the wetlands? They got tons of it around Green Bay. Its like a giant marsh grass and gets a seed head on it later on.

I tell you, if that shit gets lit up around the Bay Beach bridge, half of Green Bay is going to burn.

I see that stuff in the medians and ditches all the way up to the UP of Michigan.


88 posted on 05/23/2017 11:44:05 AM PDT by crz
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To: crz

Reminds me of Queen Anne’s Lace, only larger.


89 posted on 05/23/2017 11:51:18 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Augie; greeneyes
Augie :" Perhaps of interest to the gardening list."

I am already acquainted with "Giant Hogweed", true name (Heracleum mantegazzianum)
I guess that I am already familiar with the plant, and assumed that it was known to all already.
The problem in New York is that various highway departments will only kill the plant within 15-30 feet of a roadway, on the right-of-way,
.. Or obtain prior permission from the land owner to trespass on private land to eradicate the plant.
Notice the large flower and therefore prolific seed production of the "Giant Hogweed" plant
as equally important is the side-effects of just touching the plant - at least, a rash, and more contact- burns !

A more common invasive species currently spreading in New York is "Purple Loosestrife', which invades and chokes waterways; purple loosestrife is : Lythrum salicaria
Due to the fact that it grows rampant within inaccessible waterways, swamps, and bogs, and is difficult to eradicate, and is spreading throughout the State.

90 posted on 05/23/2017 12:30:07 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: Ray76; Red Badger; greeneyes
Ray76:" Looks like a gigantic version of "Queen Anne’s Lace."

Exactly true ! It's the umbrell flowering top that is similar; but the "hogweed" height is much taller, leaf configuration is different
" Queen Anne’s Lace " = wild carrot !

91 posted on 05/23/2017 12:36:59 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: digger48

“Can’t buy that unless you are certified”

Or you have a friend that is certified who can buy and apply it for you.


92 posted on 05/23/2017 3:53:09 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Got a brother and nephew for that.


93 posted on 05/23/2017 5:09:17 PM PDT by digger48
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To: upchuck

Not sure how it can be all around Indiana and not be here.

Damn honeysuckle is taking over though.


94 posted on 05/23/2017 5:11:23 PM PDT by digger48
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To: CGASMIA68

My guess is bitch. Like most of the SS / Medicare takers on FR.


95 posted on 05/23/2017 6:03:09 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: Augie

I hope I never see it. That picture of the guys leg was very disturbing.


96 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:03 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Psalm 73

:-)


97 posted on 05/23/2017 7:33:13 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: crz
While we're talking about disgusting things, there's the Dobson Fly (Hellgrammite, the 'King Kong' of aquatic insects.)

My husband often tells of being out in a boat with his dad, fishing, when one of these critters landed on his shoulder with a *thunk*. Creepy Critter, big with a lot of heft! - whether it can hurt you or not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76vC-E6GhA

(Husband suggests the old movie 'Tingler', with Vincent Price :-)
98 posted on 05/23/2017 8:04:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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