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Plants Poisonous to Animals

As you will see from the below noted list, the number of plants that may be poisonous to your pet is quite numerous. Therefore, to be on the safe side, it is suggested that you aviod letting you pet ingest any plant not native to it's diet and check with your veterinarian. Please note that plant names vary in different regions, so there may be others that are not on this list.

It all boils down to supervision. PLEASE try to put all houseplants up out of your pet's reach, and please, please, please supervise your pets while they are outdoors!

Toxic Houseplants

    Amaryllis
    Asparagus fern
    Azalea
    Bird of Paradise
    Castor bean (can be fatal)
    Cherry (Jerusalem, ordinary, bitter, wild black)
    Creeping Charlie
    Crown of thorns
    Diffenbachia (can be fatal)
    Easter lily (nontoxic in humans but often fatal in cats
    Elderberry
    Elephant ears
    Glocal ivy
    Heart ivy
    Ivy
    Japanese yew
    Lilly of the valley (can be fatal)
    Mistletoe (can be fatal)
    Needlepoint ivy
    Ornamental Yew
    Philodendron (can be fatal)
    Poinsettia (leaves can be fatal)
    Pot chrysanthenlum
    Rhubarb
    Precatory bean
    Ripple ivy

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Toxic Outdoor Plants

    Aconite
    Alfalfa
    American yew
    Angel's trumpet
    Apricot, almond, apple
    Arrowgrass (can be fatal)
    Azalea
    Baneberry
    Belladonna
    Bird of paradise
    Birdsfoot Trefoil
    Bittersweet (the berries can be fatal)
    Black locust
    Black Nightshade
    Black walnuts
    Blackberry Bleeding Heart
    Bloodroot
    Bouncing Bet
    Bracken or Brake Fern
    Buckwheat
    Buffalo Bur
    Burdock
    Buttercup
    Cactus
    Candlenut Tree
    Cardinal Flower
    Celandine
    Cherry tree (foliage and bark)
    China berry (causes convulsions)
    Christmas Rose
    Climbing nightshade
    Clover
    Cloves
    Cocklebur
    Common Nightshade
    Coriara (causes convulsions)
    Corn Cockle
    Corn Lily
    Cow Cockle
    Cowslip
    Crowfoot
    Crown of thorns
    Curly Dock
    Daffodil
    Daphne
    Death Camas
    Delphinium
    Devil's Trumput
    Dewberry
    Dock
    Dog Bane
    Doll's Eyes
    Downy Thornapple
    Drooping Leucothoe
    Dumb cane
    Dutchman's Breeches
    Elderberry
    English holly
    English walnuts
    English yew
    Ergot
    Fale Hellbore
    Ferns
    Fiddleneck
    Fireweed
    Flax
    Foxglove
    Gill-over-the-Ground
    Golden Chair
    Grasses(foxtail, wild barley, Johnson, June, Sudan, and Ripgut)
    Great Lobelia
    Groundsels
    Halogeton
    Hawthorn
    Hemlock ~ (can be fatal)
    Henbane
    Honey locust
    Horsebrush
    Horse Chestnut, Buckeyes
    Horse Nettle
    Horse Tails
    Hyacinth
    Hydrangea
    Irises
    Ivy, Poision, Oak, and Sumach
    Jack-in-the-Pulpit
    Japanese Pieris
    Jasmine
    Jimsonweed (can be fatal)
    Kentucky Coffee Tree
    Laburnum
    Lamb's Quarters
    Lantana
    Larkspur
    Lily of the valley
    Locoweed (can be fatal)
    Lucerne
    Lupine
    Mescal bean
    Mandrake
    Marigold
    Marijuana
    Mayapple
    Milkweed
    Mock orange
    Monkshood
    Moonweed (causes convulsions)
    Mountain Fetterbush
    Mushrooms and toadstools (cats like to eat them; can be fatal)
    Nettles (stinging, bull, and spurge)
    Nightshade, Black
    Oak tree
    Ohio Buckeye
    Oleander
    Onions
    Osage Orange
    Peach tree (leaves and bark can cause cyanide poisoning)
    Peas
    Philodendron
    Pigweed
    Poision Ivy, Oak, and Sumach
    Pokeweed
    Ponderosa Pine
    Poppy, White
    Privit
    Purple foxglove
    Purple Mint
    Quince
    Ragworts
    Rhododendron
    Rhubarb (can cause convulsions and death)
    Rose
    Sage (red, yellow)
    Senecio
    Sensitive Fern
    Sierra Laurel
    Skunk cabbage
    Snow on the mountain
    Soapberry
    Spinach
    Spurges
    Squirrel Corn
    Star of Bethlehem
    St. Johnswort
    Tobacco
    Tomato vine
    Tinsel tree - milk bush
    Tulip
    Tung Oil Tree
    Vetch
    White Snakeroot
    Wild Onion
    Wisteria
    Wolfsbane
    Yellow Star Thistle
    Yew


For more information on these plants and plants significant to your region, please visit this Poison Plants Sites link.


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