Can anyone tell me what this is please? Poison hemlock?

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Hi, can anyone tell me what this is please? I'm worried in case it is poison hemlock

Google Ammi - could it be that?

Suggestions I've had off plant id apps and other forums are 'spreading hedge parsley, pignut, coriander, poison hemlock' does anyone know for sure what it is?

There are so many plants in that family that (I was once advised by the Royal Horticultural Society) it would be very unwise to ID it from a photo, as the family ranges from the edible to the highly toxic. Where is it growing?

@TalesOfDrunkennessAndCruelty It's growing in my garden which is why I'm worried about it being on the highly toxic end as I've got young children who like picking flowers in the garden. I was hoping someone could say for sure if it was poison hemlock from the pic but doesn't sound like they will be able to from what you've said. I'm going to remove it anyway but just wanted to know what I was dealing with!

It looks most like fool's parsley Aethusa cynapium to me. I agree with @TalesOfDrunkennessAndCruelty that it is best not to rely on internet identifiers for this. But on the other hand, like hemlock, fool's parsley is also very poisonous.

Put some gloves on, pull it up and throw it in the bin. Don't compost it.

Lots of similar looking plants are poisonous, so if you are worried probably best to pull up. For what it's worth it looks more like fools parsley to me as well, (which is also poisonous), but I couldn't really be certain from a photo.

Put your photo on the Picture This app and it says fool's parsley.

I've pulled it up and bagged it now 👍🏻 hopefully no more appears

@Mmmmdanone

Put your photo on the Picture This app and it says fool's parsley.

In this case, I'd say it is right, but as another pp points out, the Royal Horticultural Society says it is unwise to try and identify a possibly toxic plant like that.

You can't mess around with plants. There are all too many poisonous ones, and some of them are deadly, even in small quantities.

Quite. The plant ID apps seem very hit and miss. Some of the identifications offered on MN threads using the apps have been spectacularly wrong - huge shrubs identified as tiny alpine plants and vice versa, just because they have the same colour flowers/overall shape/whatever - so I would never use them for a possibly toxic plant.

Bagging it and binning it is the best response.

It’s definitely in the carrot family, but that’s a difficult family to id with all the UK members let alone the possibility of non-natives in a garden setting. Id depends on things like the bracts behind the flowers.

We can rule out some things - not hemlock, not pignut, not giant hogweed for example.

I cannot understand the advice not to compost, unless it’s gone to seed and you don’t want the seeds germinating.