This was not the kind of thing to yank out on a sunny afternoon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In case we weren't all worried enough about tick-borne diseases, here's another outdoor danger to avoid this summer: giant hogweed ...

I’ve dropped myself half a kilometre into the crater of a live volcano, I’ve swum with sharks in the open ocean, I’ve lived through 23 hurricanes, and standing amidst a field of innocuous (but large) ...

A giant invasive plant with dangerous effects is sparking fresh safety warnings.

Not many plants have emergency hotlines you can call if you happen across them, but giant hogweed, a flesh-burning plant that has been spreading across the U.S., is one of them. This plant is so ...

A DANGEROUS plant that can cause severe skin injuries is spreading across Yorkshire.

Hogweed is a noxious plant that can cause severe skin burns. The weed's watery sap makes skin sensitive to ultraviolet rays, resulting in painful skin blistering. King County plant specialists removed ...

"Big chunks of my face were falling off," Alex Childress, 17, tells PEOPLE of the night he realized he had been burned by hogweed sap A 17-year-old Virginia boy is recovering after a giant hogweed ...

About a century ago, New England garden enthusiasts adopted the British trend of cultivating a towering, white-blossomed plant called giant hogweed in their yards. Considered ‘ornamental’, the plant ...

(HealthDay)—Giant hogweed is much like a Dr. Seuss nightmare—a towering, invasive plant with toxic sap that burns the skin and eyes upon contact. But the noxious weed is not imaginary, with a dozen ...

If someone gives you a Giant Hogweed plant as a gift, that person is not your friend. And "leave" this plant (otherwise known as the cartwheel-flowera or Heracleum mantegazzianum) alone. Don't even ...