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CAN YOU TELL THESE APART?
It self-seeds into herb beds looking like flat-leaf parsley. It is in the hemlock family
SAFE
parsley
Petroselinum crispum
fresh herb smell, bright green leaves, no bracts under the flower clusters
TOXIC
fool's parsley
Aethusa cynapium
unpleasant smell when crushed, long drooping bracts hanging beneath each flower cluster
How to tell them apart
Fresh-herb smell, no bracts = parsley. Foul smell with long drooping bracts under the flowers = fool's parsley.
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