DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
- Dewey
- Moderator
- Posts: 36727
- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
- Location: Wisconsin
- Status: Offline
DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- State officials have confirmed a new giant invasive plant with toxic sap that can burn human skin has turned up in southeastern Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Department of Natural Resources confirmed hundreds of giant hogweed plants were present in Sheboygan in June.
The plant can grow to as high as 20 feet and sprout 3-foot leaves. Its sap contains glucosides that react with the sun's ultraviolet rays and can severely burn the skin, cause blisters or cause temporary blindness. The plant was first recorded in Wisconsin in 2004.
A crew from Brodhead-based Applied Ecological Services surveyed the Sheboygan neighborhood where the plants were found and sprayed more than 800 plants with herbicide.
Here is more info on how to identify it.............
http://fox6now.com/2016/07/05/rapid-res ... t-hogweed/
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Department of Natural Resources confirmed hundreds of giant hogweed plants were present in Sheboygan in June.
The plant can grow to as high as 20 feet and sprout 3-foot leaves. Its sap contains glucosides that react with the sun's ultraviolet rays and can severely burn the skin, cause blisters or cause temporary blindness. The plant was first recorded in Wisconsin in 2004.
A crew from Brodhead-based Applied Ecological Services surveyed the Sheboygan neighborhood where the plants were found and sprayed more than 800 plants with herbicide.
Here is more info on how to identify it.............
http://fox6now.com/2016/07/05/rapid-res ... t-hogweed/
- hunter_mike
- Moderator
- Posts: 8294
- Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:24 pm
- Location: south central WI
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Sounds like wild parsnip on roids
[ Post made via Android ]
[ Post made via Android ]
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
- wickedbruiser
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1307
- Joined: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:58 am
- Location: MA
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Thanks for sharing, Dewey. I have come across hogweed here out east and had no idea the danger. Thank God I didn't mess around with it.
[ Post made via Android ]
[ Post made via Android ]
- stash59
- Moderator
- Posts: 10077
- Joined: Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:22 am
- Location: S Central Wi.
- Status: Offline
- Hawthorne
- 500 Club
- Posts: 6217
- Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:13 pm
- Location: michigan
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Looks like a giant version of queen Ann's lace. Thanks for the heads up
[ Post made via iPhone ]
[ Post made via iPhone ]
- vermonthunter16
- 500 Club
- Posts: 770
- Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:38 am
- Location: PA
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
We have problems here popping up as well. There are interns that are attempting to eradicate them. I had an opportunity for summer employment to assist with those projects, I couldn't be bothered to mess with that stuff though! Nasty.
-Rick
-
- Posts: 5586
- Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:35 am
- Location: Appleton WI
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
It is Wild Parsnip and it is everywhere
[ Post made via Android ]
[ Post made via Android ]
"When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values, with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." Fred Bear
- Dewey
- Moderator
- Posts: 36727
- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
- Location: Wisconsin
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Found some Giant Hogweed this weekend. Not hard to see because it grows rapidly and is over 10 feet tall already.
Yeah I agree Wild Parsnip also is everywhere. Wondering if it's worse in the summer for skin blistering because I have been walking thru the stuff for years in fall with no issues.
Maybe I am one of the few rare people not affected by stuff like this and Poison Ivy.
[ Post made via iPhone ]
Yeah I agree Wild Parsnip also is everywhere. Wondering if it's worse in the summer for skin blistering because I have been walking thru the stuff for years in fall with no issues.
Maybe I am one of the few rare people not affected by stuff like this and Poison Ivy.
[ Post made via iPhone ]
- hunter_mike
- Moderator
- Posts: 8294
- Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:24 pm
- Location: south central WI
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Dewey wrote:Found some Giant Hogweed this weekend. Not hard to see because it grows rapidly and is over 10 feet tall already.
Yeah I agree Wild Parsnip also is everywhere. Wondering if it's worse in the summer for skin blistering because I have been walking thru the stuff for years in fall with no issues.
Maybe I am one of the few rare people not affected by stuff like this and Poison Ivy.
[ Post made via iPhone ]
Forgot to mention, I am pretty sure I saw some out in Minnesota last week when I was out there for work. Looked just like wild parnsip only it was 10 ft tall and had white flowers
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
-
- Posts: 5586
- Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:35 am
- Location: Appleton WI
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
White flowers is hogweed.... yellow is parsnip. I'm seeing parsnip all over in ditches and now in fields... it takes one encounter and I guarantee you will never forget it. To my understanding it is not like poison ivy... all humans are susceptible
[ Post made via Android ]
"When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values, with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." Fred Bear
- Hawthorne
- 500 Club
- Posts: 6217
- Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:13 pm
- Location: michigan
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
I pulled a bunch of weeds that look like wild parsnip it grows in my food plots and fallow fields. I was told it was yellow rocket may be different no rash. I use to get poison ivy bad when I was younger. I think I devolped an immunity because I know I've come in contact with it many times the last few years hanging stands and got nothing
[ Post made via iPhone ]
[ Post made via iPhone ]
-
- Posts: 5586
- Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:35 am
- Location: Appleton WI
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Yellow rocket is tough to kill with chemical in food plots... I currently have a headache with it. I'm thinking it is weed seed commonly mixed in with turnip seeds
[ Post made via Android ]
[ Post made via Android ]
"When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values, with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." Fred Bear
- hunter_mike
- Moderator
- Posts: 8294
- Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:24 pm
- Location: south central WI
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Good photo bucky, i think i am seeing a lot of the cow parsnip in the ditches here too.
[ Post made via Android ]
[ Post made via Android ]
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
- Singing Bridge
- 500 Club
- Posts: 7162
- Joined: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:11 pm
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pro ... 1329617473
- Location: Logged in - from above
- Contact:
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
A friend of mine is a phd. toxicologist at Michigan State University. He has been summoned on a number of occasions to remove giant hogweed. He wears level 3 hazmat gear to get rid of it.
[ Post made via iPhone ]
[ Post made via iPhone ]
- Hawthorne
- 500 Club
- Posts: 6217
- Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:13 pm
- Location: michigan
- Status: Offline
Re: DNR: New invasive plant with toxic sap in Wisconsin
Bucky wrote:Yellow rocket is tough to kill with chemical in food plots... I currently have a headache with it. I'm thinking it is weed seed commonly mixed in with turnip seeds
[ Post made via Android ]
That makes sense. Seems like I only see it in areas that were crops last year. Once in awhile some farmers in my area won't plant crops one year for some reason. That's where I only see yellow rocket
[ Post made via iPhone ]
-
- Advertisement
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 18 guests