Posted on 05/23/2017 7:31:49 AM PDT by crz
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!
Will Round-up kill it or is it like spraying water ?...........
I had a very bad experience with poison ivy this time last year. This stuff sounds even worse.
I think this stuff will kill you................
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.
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.
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.
Reminds me of Queen Anne’s Lace, only larger.
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.
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 !
“Can’t buy that unless you are certified”
Or you have a friend that is certified who can buy and apply it for you.
Got a brother and nephew for that.
Not sure how it can be all around Indiana and not be here.
Damn honeysuckle is taking over though.
My guess is bitch. Like most of the SS / Medicare takers on FR.
I hope I never see it. That picture of the guys leg was very disturbing.
:-)
While we're talking about disgusting things, there's the Dobson Fly (Hellgrammite, the 'King Kong' of aquatic insects.)
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