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Photographer: Janice Stiefel
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Family Apiaceae
Cicuta bulbifera L.
bulblet water-hemlock
Cicuta: ancient Latin name of poison hemlock
bulbifera: bulb-bearing
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-40" tall, emergent aquatic; stems slender, hollow, partitioned inside; roots clustered, usually with thickened tubers; bulbets form in the upper leaf axils |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted, sepals triangular; inflorescence a 2" compound umbel; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry, splitting into 2 seeds  |
| Leaf: | all on the stem, 1 to 3 times pinnately-divided into narrow, toothed leaflets |
| Habitat: | wet; marshes, streambanks |
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