Whether you’re hiking, gardening or just enjoying the outdoors, dangerous plants — such as giant hogweed and wild parsnip, among others — can be found in many different parts of the U.S. Here’s what ...

You know enough to sidestep a melted Popsicle on the sidewalk. Your devotion to sunscreen borders on religious: Yes, you reapply. Dehydration? You fight it with an always-full water bottle. You’ve ...

I try not to repeat topics here, but one of the invasive plants I’ve mentioned before has become so prevalent and is so dangerous that it merits another go-round. Wild parsnip is blooming now in ...

Charlotte Murphy, of Essex, Vermont,posted on Facebook about her experience coming into contact with a poisonous wild parsnip plant. In the series of photos, Charlotte shows her leg with enormous ...

ANNANDALE, Minn. (WCCO)-- We have all heard the warnings to stay away from poison ivy, and we know the dangers if we do not. But there is a lesser-known plant in Minnesota that is potentially more ...

Outdoor summer activities can quickly turn hazardous if you come into contact with often harmless-looking but poisonous plants. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is warning residents of one ...

A Vermont woman who received the equivalent of second-degree chemical burns to her legs after falling into a wild parsnip plant is warning others about the dangers of the seemingly harmless herbage.

When the rash a young woman had on her leg after falling into a parsnip plant transformed into a viscous burn emphasized by a yellow puss-filled blister the size of a tennis ball, she knew something ...

When Charlotte Murphy slid into some brush while walking along a road in Vermont, she stood back up, brushed herself off and continued on her way. But her stumble came back to haunt her days later, in ...

A Vermont woman wound up with severe blisters after coming into contact with a wild parsnip plant. Charlotte Murphy posted about her experience on Facebook, saying the blisters showed up about a week ...

You know enough to sidestep a melted Popsicle on the sidewalk. Your devotion to sunscreen borders on religious: Yes, you reapply. Dehydration? You fight it with an always-full water bottle. You’ve ...