Cicuta (Cicuta verosa or even Cowbane) occurs as little genus of quadruplet mintage of extremely poisonous flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, mainly North America. It is perennial herbaceous plants which grow as much as One-Two m tall. A mintage develop within soaked hayfield, along streambanks & more damp & miry areas.

A stems come smooth, branching, swollen at a base, purple-striped, or even dappled (C. malculata exclusively), & hollow except for partitions at a junction of the leaves and stem. A leaves come replacement, tripinnate, simply coarsely toothed, unlike a ferned, lacy leaves obtained within numerous more members of the Apiaceae. A flowers are little, whiten & clustered in the umbrella shape thus familiar to this personal. An oily, yellow liquid oozes from either cuts to the stems & roots. This liquid has the rank smell resembling that of parsnips, carrots or even mice. A plant can be mistaken for parsnip due to its clusters of whiten tuberous roots.

;Species Cicuta bulbifera - Bulblet-bearing Water Hemlock. Northern N Us. Cicuta douglasii - Western Cicuta verosa. American Northerly United states. Cicuta maculata - Spotted Water Hemlock. Northward America (far flung). Cicuta virosa - Cowbane or Northern Water supply Hemlock. Northern Europe and Asia, also Alaska.