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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Water hemlock
Cicuta maculata
The wetland umbel that looks like parsley and kills like a seizure — a teaching plate so fennel, dill, and watercress have a named opposite.
Flavor
Do not taste. A parsley-carrot smell is the trap.
In favor
Teaches the deadly umbel
Grow lab
No — habitat / law only
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Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
The peppery brook green — a mustard that lives in clean moving water, and a Victorian breakfast plate.
Flavor
Pepper, mustard, cucumber-green. Hotter than lettuce, kinder than horseradish.
Symptoms
low immunity, indigestion
In favor
A true food green
Days to harvest
20–30 days from a cutting to a first snip