Ranger's buttons plants are quite similar to the other large Umbelliferae that share similar habitats : cow parsnip, but each has a very differently shaped leaf, and the other two have umbellets with quite distinct flowers, in contrast to the tight balls on ranger's buttons.
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And when we finally got to the West Coast, we got out of the car and stood on a cliff among the tall, drying cow parsnip and looked out over the Pacific Ocean, feeling like stout Balboa with wild surmise, silent, upon a peak in Darien.
