The Helleborus family has many varieties and hybrid species, and like the other infamous herbs of the Poison Path it has an extensive history in medicine and magic. Mention of this plant goes all the ...

BURLINGTON — If you are outdoors foraging for wild leeks, also known as ramps (Allium tricoccum), health officials want you to be sure you don’t mistake the ramps for a poisonous lookalike plant ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Foraging could come with a dangerous mistake and wildlife leaders are asking you to beware. Wild leeks, also known as ramps, can look like a plant called false hellebore.

Foraging season has begun, and already, one Vermonter looking for ramps has been fooled by the plant's poisonous look-alike: false hellebore. Vermont Health Department officials are urging Vermonters ...

Reported cases of serious illness due to people mistaking highly poisonous false hellebore (Veratrum viride) for a prized wild edible, ramps (Allium tricoccum), have more than doubled in Vermont over ...

Newswise — CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 3, 2021 – An increasing number of Virginians searching for leeks are being poisoned when they instead mistakenly gathered the highly poisonous False Hellebore. To help ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - If you are foraging for ramps this spring, be cautious of a poisonous lookalike plant, the false hellebore. State Health officials warn that there’s already been one reported ...

An increasing number of Virginians searching for leeks are being poisoned when they instead mistakenly gathered the highly poisonous false hellebore. To help Virginians avoid accidental poisonings, an ...