I’m used to seeing Poison Hemlock in the area, southeast idaho, but the ones I’ve seen are 3-5 feet tall. These are tiny, what you see is as big as they get. Been fighting these things at the house since I moved in, very prolific and very hard to kill with normal herbicides. Heavy ground cover that takes over. Smells like carrots. Seeds are small burrs that get in the cats hair and are impossible to get out. I hate these things.
by RandomArrr
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Hemlock is very similar, and toxic if you even touch it…. but it has purple blotchy stems with hairs.
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It is not.
Methinks hedge parsley
There are many, many lookalikes to hemlock, many of them edible.. but you need to be an expert to ID
Burr-chervil, Anthriscus caucalis. Poison hemlock never has burrs, its fruits are smooth
Emerging wild carrot or Queen Anne’s Lace.
Not hemlock (hairy stems).
That being said, poison hemlock will grow tiny like this. I constantly am battling them in my neighborhood. I’ll clear an area for multiple rounds, and the ones the pop up later are always really small, like some seeds miss the ideal window and start growing later in the year when the conditions arent very good, and grow much smaller as a result.
I live in the same area. Pretty confident that it’s burr chervil, as I’ve dealt with that quite a bit. You would really only find hemlock in riparian zones around here, since it’s too dry otherwise.