wild parsnip
a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
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On roadside banks, particularly in chalky districts, we may often meet with the wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa).
Field and Woodland Plants | William S. FurneauxThe wild parsnip is good for gravel, and for heartbeat there's nothing so good as dandelion.
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second Series | Lady GregoryFor the convulsions caused by wild parsnip there was the wonder-working yerba del pasmo.
California | Mary AustinIn 1847 we collected some wild parsnip seed from the top of the Cotteswolds, where this is among the most frequent of weeds.
Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation | James BuckmanThey carried me in and found I had been eating wild parsnip and was very sick.
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre | Matilda Sager
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