Poisonous Plants List

Plant ingestions account for many accidental poison exposures. Remember that babies easily can choke on plants and their leaves. Here is a list of many of the common poisonous plants that may be found in or around your home. If you have a plant whose name you do not know or are unsure of, take a sample to your local plant nursery to have it properly identified.

Alder Buckthorn Adendium (Desert Rose Aloe Vera Amaryllis Anemone Angel’s Trumpet Tree Anthurium Arborvitae Arum Lilly Avocado (leaves) Azalea Baneberry Baptista (Wild Indego) Barberry Begonia Bird of Paradise Bittersweet Black Dogwood Black Locust Black Root Bluebell (Schila) Buckeye Buckthorn Burning Bush Butter Cups Calla Lilly Castor Bean Chinese Lantern Christmas Rose Clematis Cotoneaster Cowslip Creeping Charlie Crocus Croton Crown of Thoms Crown Vetch Cyclamen Daffodil (bulbs) Daphne Delphinium Daphne Mezerum (Feb. Daphne) Duranta (Golden Dewdrop) Dutchman’s Pipe Elderberry English Ivy Eucalyptus Euonymus False Acacia False Heather Ficus Benjamina (sap) Fluffy Ruffles Four O’Clock Fox Glove Glorosa Lily Golden Chain Tree (Bean Tree) Hawaiian Baby Wood Hege Apples Hellborous (Chrismas Rose) Hills of Snow (Hydrangea) Hogwort Holly Hyacinth Hydrangea Iris Jack in the Pulpit Jequirity Bean Jerusalem Cherry Jicama (seeds and pods) Jimson Weed Jonquil Jiniper Latana Larkspur Laurel Lily of the Valley Lobelia Loco Weed Maiden Hair Tree Marigold (Marsh Maigold ) May Apple Milkweed Mistletoe Moonseed Monkshood Morning Glory Mountain Laurel Mushrooms Nightshade (all varieties) Oleander Paradise Plant Partridge Breast Peony Periwinkle Peyote Poison Ash Poison Daisy Poison Hemlock Poison Ivy Poison Milkweed Poison Nut Poison Oak Poison anything (duh) Pokewood Poppy (except Calif.) Primrose Privet (Lovage) Prunus(Apricot,Cherry) Pyracantha Ranunculus Rhododendrun Rosary Beans Rhubarb (leaves) Sand begonia Scindapus Snake Palm Snowberry Snow on the mountain Solomon’s Seal Spider Lily (bulbs) Star of Bethlehem String of Beads Stinkweed Sumac Sweetpea Toadstools Tobacco Trumpet Plant Tulip Victoria Regia Vinca (all verieties) Water Hemlock Wild Parsnip Wisteria Yew Zephyr Lily