Re: Wild parsnip
- Subject: Re: Wild parsnip
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:45:06 -0400
Think what you're looking for is Pastinaca sativa, not Angelica
archangelica, who, as far as I know, has no photodermatitis
properties. Here's an excellent article about Pastinaca sativa in
Wisconsin, with links to more information...the pix accompanying the
article aren't great, however, so here are some others:
http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1999/jun99/parsnip.htm
Here's an image of the flowers
http://berg.heim.at/almwiesen/410098/pages/Pastinaca-sativa-2.htm
Here's a botanical drawing of the plant, flower, etc.
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/thome/band3/tafel_063_small.
jpg
Bio Images has several pix of various parts of the plant as well as a
mass of them growing
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/R150542.HTM
And here's Angelica archangelica - not the same form nor habit, same
family, Umbelliferae...widely used as an herbal, edible and
ornamental.
http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/systematik/7_bilder/coolpix/
cp000092.jpg
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Don Martinson <llmen@execpc.com>
>
> Here in southeastern Wisconsin, we are seeing a lot of what the
> newspapers are calling "wild parsnip". It is a non-native invader
> and is gaining notoriety because of the photodermatitis that many
> people can suffer after contact with the sap.
>
> My books list this plant as Angelica archangelica, which is the
same
> plant whose stems are often candied and eaten.
>
> Could this be the same plant? The description in Hortus III seems
to fit.
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