So my neighbors dog got into some poison hemlock plants and I feel safe enough to identify them at this point. However, I found a huuuuge bush, roughly 20' in diameter (there are 2 of them) of something that has the same flowering buds that hemlock has, and the leaves point towards water hemlock, however, it's not the right area, and I couldn't find anything that identified water hemlock as being native to Ohio. I also noticed that it has real light bark, which hemlock shouldn't, but the flowers and leaves still point towards it. So I'm just concerned with getting it identified to see if it's a problem for my dogs. http://imgur.com/0KNlMvq,FlbHXKF http://imgur.com/0KNlMvq,FlbHXKF#1 Thanks ahead of time for any and all help.
Awesome, much appreciated. That's two sources confirmed. Should have listened to the gf :) After all, she's an arborist for a living.
The hemlock tree, Tsuga canadensis, in the pine family is not poison hemlock. The poison hemlocks, Conium maculatum and Cicuta maculata are herbaceous plants in the parsley family.
Carrot Family plants like poison hemlock and water hemlock produce compound leaves and are not woody. Your viburnum is a woody shrub with simple leaves.
Right, but if you look at the pic of the leaves, and then do a google search for the water hemlock leaves, there's a few pics where they look similar. Even though normally water hems have long, thin leaves.
I believe you are confusing leaves with leaflets. Water hemlock has compound leaves divided into leaflets. Viburnum has simple leaves. The hemlock tree has needles.
