Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock

(Cicuta bulbifera)

 

Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of Robert Bierman, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)

Identification: Flowers white in open, irregular umbels. Bracts absent from base of umbel. Leaves slender, forked, and irregularly toothed. A series of small bulblike structures in the upper leaf axils. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.

Distribution: Canada, southward to Minnesota, Illinois and east to Ohio and southward in the mountains to Virginia. Also occurs in southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States.

Habitat: Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock is found in swamps and other wet places.

Flowering period: July to September.

 

Bulb-bearing Water Hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)

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The slender, dentate leaflets and the bulblike structures in the axils of the upper leaves are distinctive.

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