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(First upload on July 12 2013. Last on February 11 2023) [ 日本語 | English ]

Cicuta virosa L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Cicuta L. (ドクゼリ)
Dokuzeri (ドクゼリ, 毒人芹), cowbane or northern water hemlock
Oozeri (オオゼリ, 大芹)
Lifeform: perennial forb
Distribution: the Eurasian Continent, including Japan (Hokkaido - Kyushu)
Habitat: wetlands
Flowering: June to July in Sapporo
Morphology: similar with an edible plant, Oenanthe javanica (セリ) - be cautious for feeding
Toxin: highly poisonous, i.e., one of the three major poisonous plants (日本三大有毒植物). The whole plants, in paricular, in rhizomes, contain toxin (cicutoxin, cicutin, etc.)
Synonyms (discarded):

Cicuta virosa L. var. nipponica (Franch.) Makino

f. angustifolia (Kit.) Schube (ヒメドクゼリ) (syn. var. stricta K. F. Schultz)
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Cicuta virosa in Hokkaido


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[1/2] non-flowering shoots along a tiny trail for looking around small islands in O-numa Park, southern Hokkaido, on July 7 2013. [3] at the former Upper-Sarobetsu Visitor Center, northern Hokkaido, on April 24 2016. [4-6] along Atsuma Coast (浜厚真), central Hokkaido, on August 2 2022.

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