Hemlock facts for kids

The word hemlock may refer to:

Plants

• Several poisonous plants in the Apiaceae family
  • Conium
    • Conium maculatum, or poison hemlock
  • Cicuta (water hemlock)
  • Oenanthe crocata (water dropwort)
• Tsuga, a genus of coniferous trees which resemble the poisonous plant, but are unrelated.

Communities

United States

• Hemlock, Indiana
• Hemlock, Michigan
• Hemlock, Ohio
• Hemlock, Fayette County, West Virginia
• Hemlock, Jackson County, West Virginia
• Hemlock, Wisconsin
• Hemlock Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania

Canada

• Hemlock, in Norfolk County, Ontario

Bodies of water

• Hemlock Creek, in Pennsylvania
• Hemlock Falls, in Georgia
• Hemlock Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in New York
• Hemlock Lake, Marcellus, MI
• Hemlock Brook, in Massachusetts

Other uses

• Hemlock (editor), a variant of the Emacs text editor for Unix
• Hemlock (Evergreen series / Radeon HD 5970), a graphics card code-name
• Hemlock (band), a heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada
• Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation, a producer of polysilicon in the United States
• Babe and Carla Hemlock, Mohawk visual artists
• Sherlock Hemlock, the name of a Muppet detective
• Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, a group advocating aid in dying for qualifying terminally ill patients in the United States
• Hemlock Recordings, an London-based Electronic Record Label run by Untold (musician)
• Hemlock Grove, a television show