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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
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