TOXIC PLANTS
Herbs
Blue Flax
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Seeds
Foliage, seed pods
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Humans
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Pets |
Contains cyanide
Contains cyanide |
Yellow Wood-sorrel
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All parts
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Grazing animals
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Oxalic acid, oxalate
Symptoms when eaten in large quantities, trembling, cramps, and staggering |
Ground Covers and Vines
Periwinkle
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All parts, seeds, flowers, stems, foliage
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Humans
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Pets
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Toxicity Category 1 - Plants can cause systemic toxicity varying from mild abdominal cramping to serious cardiac complications.
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Yellow Trumpet Vine
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Leaves and flowers
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Mammals
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Mammals
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Warning: Contact with leaves and flowers may result in skin redness and
swelling among mammals. Also slightly toxic if ingested. |
Shrubs
Yew
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All parts except aril ("berry")
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taxine
cardiotoxic most in seeds |
Trees
Goldenrain Tree
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Flowers, seeds, roots
Foliage
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Dogs
Horses, cattle, and probably other hoofed mammalian herbivores
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Gastrointestinal irritation
Gastrointestinal irritation
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Red Maple
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Fallen or wilted leaves
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Horses
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Mortality 60%
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Chokecherry
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prussuc acid
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Kentucky
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cyticine, nicotine-like
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