Oh yes! It's very common in Iowa.

At 08:47 AM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>To All,
>     There has been no mention made of wild parsnip.  After 20 years of
>working in Maine I finally ran into it while clearing an overgrown field
>with weed-whackers.  The two people using the machines were luckily wearing
>long pants and long sleeve shirts, but next day their faces, hands, wrists,
>and especially their necks were covered with nasty looking blisters.  Most
>of the crew had blisters on knees and shins from kneeling in it.  One guy
>was so bad he couldn't bend his knees.
>     Wild parsnip can grow up to five feet tall, has domed shaped cluster of
>yellow flowers looking vaguely like Queen Anne's lace.  The sap on the skin
>reacts to sunlight and causes burns.  It doesn't itch like poison ivy but
>the scars and skin discoloration can last for years.  According to the web
>it is pretty common in Wisconsin.  Anyone else run into it?
>
>Lee Cranmer
>Maine Historic Preservation Commission