Sightings of the invasive wild parsnip plant have been increasing across southeastern Ontario, including fields of the yellow-flowered plant across Durham Region. Also known a poison parsnip, it is a ...

An environmental expert and botanist are scratching their heads over the City of Ottawa’s recent frenzy to rid the region of Pastinaca sativa, also known as wild parsnip. Wild parsnip, which grows in ...

ESSEX, Ont. — While its name sounds like a vegetable – wild parsnip – it’s as dangerous as poison ivy. Blooms of the noxious invasive weed that is native to Europe and Asia have sprouted along Gore, ...

A 21-year-old Vermont woman is warning others to steer away from the invasive wild parsnip plant after she was hospitalized with severe burns and blisters from coming in contact with it. The wound was ...

They may look pretty growing alongside our roadways and trails, but think twice about picking a bouquet of these deceptive yellow weeds. They could burn you, scar you, or maybe even blind you. Wild ...

The City of Oshawa is warning people to stay away from wild parsnip and cow parsnip when at local parks and wild areas in the city. The wildflowers can be found along trails and along the edges of ...

Summer is a time when two common roadside plants are blooming, and people sometimes mix them up. That might not matter with most wild flowers, but one of these can be harmful. Wild parsnip and Queen ...

A Renfrew woman has been told she'll have to avoid direct sunlight for three years after a nasty encounter with toxic wild parsnip in her garden. Sherry Steeves was gardening two weeks ago when she ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermonters beware! Wild parsnip is in full bloom. It may look pretty but the reaction can be ugly. “If they stop on the side of the road and a beautiful patch of yellow ...

For those who like to go off the beaten path, beware — the Wild Parsnip could get you — and your little dog, too. Signs were recently posted on the city’s west-end Humber River trail warning users of ...

Dangerous wild parsnip is enjoying a “prime growing season” and spreading throughout the city, a municipal staffer said Tuesday after a youngster was badly burned in Kanata. The boy had touched ...