I found this plant last night and carefully dug it out of the ground with gloves. It's very young and was only a rosette, no purple coloration, I tossed it into the trash but I wanted to be sure that it was hemlock and not queen ann's lace for future identification. I know the saying "the queen has hairy legs" but I have seen sources claiming that very young poison hemlock has hairy stems.
E.g. on Figure 5: https://www.uaex.uada.edu/publications/pdf/FSA2203.pdf
I took a picture of it and if you zoom in you can see that not only are the stems hairy but the leaves are hairy as well. So if young hemlock does have hairy stems, does it also have hairy leaves? I live in the PNW.
u/Effective_Gur1003 — 14 days ago