Nasty rash after gardening

[70sShmeventies]

What could have caused this? It’s v painful blistered. I’ve been weeding heavily overgrown flowerbeds.

Yeah, I think rue was the first plant recognised to cause photosensitivity.

In an episode of Downton Abbey Moseley got v irritated and sore hands after he had been working on a rue (sp???) hedge.

common hogweed leaf

cow parsley leaf

Bliney @70sShmeventies that's more than a rash!

Hope you are ok.

As that link shows, hemlock is the nasty that's similar!

Another one - found near water courses so maybe more likely encountered on a walk or if doing watersports rather than gardening - is hemlock water dropwort. That's got more distinctive bobbly flowers.

DH gets that from ivy and cow parsley. He reacts to a lot of other plants though too.

We are very alert for hogsweed but don’t have any in the garden but the orchard gets a lot of cow parsley. He needs a face mask and gauntlets.

Ivy can make him ill for weeks though. We are on a mission to try and get rid of it all in the garden but it is very overgrown in places.

Yes, I was responding to the PP who said cow parsley looks “pretty identical” to hogweed. Which of course it doesn’t if you look at the leaf