Side by side
Compare plates
Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Poison hemlock
Conium maculatum
Socrates' cup — a purple-spotted parsley that is still mistaken for fennel, carrot, and Queen Anne's lace.
Flavor
Do not taste. Literature describes a mouse-urine, parsley rankness.
In favor
The most important lookalike lesson in this folio
Against
Fatal in small amounts
Days to harvest
Not a crop. Learn the purple-spotted stem in year 2 bloom.
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Dill
Anethum graveolens
Feathery kitchen green and a caraway-cousin seed — the pickle herb, also an after-dinner chew.
Flavor
Leaf is green anise and grass; seed is warmer, caraway-adjacent, a little citrus.
Symptoms
indigestion, bloating, cramps
Days to harvest
40–55 days for leaf; 85–100 days for seed