Side by side
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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Achilles' woundwort — a bitter, aromatic styptic for fevers, cuts, and heavy moons.
Flavor
Bitter, aromatic, and a little numbing — a true European bitter.
Symptoms
fever, cold, cramps, minor wounds
In favor
Everywhere, identifiable, first-aid useful
Against
Asteraceae allergy, including cross-reaction
Days to harvest
80–100 days first year; then perennial cuts
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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.