Toxic Plants
Literally hundreds of common plants, both indoors and out, have toxic effects on our pets causing everything from mild gastro-intestinal upset to death. Sometimes dogs and especially cats like to munch on grass and plants for a variety of reasons and sometimes for no reason at all. Try to keep poisonous plants away from your pets’ reach, a list of toxic plants compiled by the ASPCA, the Humane Society and the American Animal Hospital Association (AHAA) can help you determine if you have any poisonous plants around your home or yard. Here are some common toxic plants:
- Castor Bean
- Daffodil
- Dieffenbachia (Dumb Cane)
- Elephant Ear
- Hyacinth
- Narcissus
- Oleander
- Rosary Pea
- Horse Chestnut, Buckeye
- Alfalfa, Lucerne
- Alsike Clover, Red Clover, White Clover
- Arrowgrass
- Baneberry, Dolls Eyes, White Cohosh, Snakeberry
- Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade
- Birdsfoot Trefoil
- Black Locust
- Bleeding Heart, Squirrel Corn, Dutchmans Breeches
- Bloodroot
- Bouncing Bet, Cow Cockle
- Bracken Fern
- Buckwheat
- Buttercup, Crowfoot
- Castor Bean
- Celandine
- Christmas Rose
- Cocklebur
- Commercial Onions, Wild Onions, Swamp Onions, Chives
- Common Nightshade, Black Nightshade, Horse Nettle, Buffalo Bur, Potato
- Common Vetch, Hairy Vetch, Narrow leafed vetch, purple vetch, broad beans
- Corn Cockle
- Corn Lily, False Hellbore
- Crown Vetch
- Daphne
- Death Camas
- Delphiniums, Larkspurs
- Destroying Angels
- Dock
- Dogbane
- Drooping Leucothoe, Sierra Laurel
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage
- Elderberry
- Ergot
- Fiddleneck
- Flax
- Fly Agaric
- Foxglove
- Golden Chain, Laburnum
- Great Lobelia, Cardinal Flower, Indian Tobacco
- Ground Ivy, Creeping Charlie, Gill over the ground
- Halogeton
- Henbane
- Horsebrush
- Horsetail
- Irises
- Jack in the Pulpit
- Japanese Pieris, Mountain Fetterbrush
- Jessamine
- Jimsonweed, Downy Thornapple, Devils Trumpet, Angels Trumpet
- Lambs Quarters
- Lantana, Red Sage, Yellow Sage, West Indian Lantana
- Lily of the Valley
- Locoweed
- Lupine
- Marijuana
- Marsh Marigold, Cowslip
- Mayapple, Mandrake
- Milkweed
- Monkey Agaric, Panther Cap, Death Cap, Death Angel
- Monkshood, Aconite, Wolfsbane
- Moonseed
- Oak Trees
- Oleander
- Panther
- Pigweed
- Poinsettia, Spurges, Snow on the Mountain
- Poison Hemlock
- Poison ivy
- Poison oak
- Poison Sumac
- Pokeweed
- Ponderosa Pine
- Prickly Poppy, Mexican Poppy
- Rape, Cabbage, Turnips, Broccoli, Mustard
- Red maple, Swamp maple, Soft maple
- Rhubarb
- Rosary Pea
- Senecio, Groundsels, Ragwort
- Sensitive Fern
- Silver maple, Soft maple, White maple
- Sorghum, Milo, Sudan Grass, Johnson Grass
- St. Johns Wort, Klamath Weed
- Star of Bethlehem
- Stinging Nettle
- Sugar maple, Rock maple, Hard maple
- Sweet Pea, Tangier Pea, Everlasting Pea, Caley Pea, Singletary Pea
- Tall Fescue
- Tobacco, Tree Tobacco
- Tung Oil Tree
- Various Poppies including Opium Poppy
- Water Hemlock, Cowbane
- White Snakeroot
- White Sweetclover, Yellow Sweetclover
- Wild Cherries, Black Cherry, Bitter Cherry, Choke Cherry, Pin Cherry
- Wisteria
- Yellow Star Thistle
- Yew
