Hemlock (Conium maculatum) - growing info & companion plants

Growth conditions

USDA Hardiness zone

4-8 Learn more

Light requirement

Full sun, Partial sun/shade

Water requirement

Moist

Soil type

Light (sandy), Medium, Heavy (clay)

Physical characteristics

Height

2.0

Cultivation details

Life cycle

Biennial

Uses

Utility

Fragrance

Edible

true

Edible parts

Leaves

Warning

Weed potential

Names

Alternate name

Poison hemlock, beaver poison; carrot-fern; fool's-parsley; hemlock; herb bennet; kecksies; kex; musquash root; poison parsley; spotted corobane; spotted-hemlock; spotted-parsley spanish: encaje cimarrón; panalillo; perejil de chucho; perejil de monte; zanahoria silvestre french: cigue maculee; cigue tache; cigue tachetee; grande ciguë chinese: du shen brazil: cicuta; funcho-selvagem germany: gefleckter schierling guatemala: perejil de chucho; perejil de monte italy: cicuta maggiore netherlands: gevlekte scheerling sweden: odört

Taxonomy

Family

Apiaceae or umbelliferae

Origin and spread

Native to

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia

Introduced into

Alabama, Alberta, Altay, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Azores, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Georgia, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Mozambique, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, North Carolina, North Dakota, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Primorye, Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Zimbabwe

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