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Conium
Conium ( or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. As of December 2020, Plants of the World Online accepts six species.
All species of the genus are poisonous to humans. C. maculatum, also known as hemlock, is infamous for being highly poisonous. Hemlock is native to temperate regions of Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. The species C. chaerophylloides, C. fontanum, and C. sphaerocarpum are all native to southern Africa.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
poison hemlock
speciesConium maculatum
Conium fontanum
speciesConium fontanum
Hemlock
speciesConium chaerophylloides
Conium sphaerocarpum
speciesConium sphaerocarpum
Conium divaricatum
speciesConium divaricatum
Conium hilliburttorum
speciesConium hilliburttorum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52999.