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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Parsley
Petroselinum crispum
The garnish that is actually a mineral-green — a kitchen herb with a traditional kidney-and-breath record.
Flavor
Green, mineral, a little peppery — curly is milder, flat-leaf is louder.
Symptoms
indigestion, water retention, bad breath
In favor
Always in the kitchen
Against
Seed and oil are not food doses
Days to harvest
70–90 days from sow to a useful bunch