POISONOUS PLANTS FOR PETS
If your pet chews or ingests any of the following plants or show symptoms please call:
ASPCA NATIONAL ANIMAL POSION CONTROL CENTER
web site: https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control
1-888-4ANI-HELP (888-416-4435)
Please feel free to print this list and post it in your home. It is a handy list to have when you are purchasing plants for indoors/outdoors.
TOXIC HOUSEPLANTS:
The following give rash after contact with the skin or mouth:
- Chrysanthemum
- Creeping Fig
- Poinsettia
- Pot Mum (might produce dermatitis)
- Spider Mum (might produce dermatitis)
- Weeping Fig
The following are irritating to mucus membranes (toxic Oxalates); the mouth especially get swollen; painful tongue; sore lips:
- Arrowhead Vine
- Boston Ivy
- Collodium
- Drunk Cne
- Emerald Duke
- Heart Leaf (philodendrum)
- Majesty
- Marble Queen
- Neththytis Ivy
- Pathos
- Red Princess
- Saddle Leaf (philodendrum)
- Split Leaf (philodendrum)
The following may contain a wide variety of poisons. Most cause vomiting, abdominal pain, cramps. Some cause tremors, heart and respiratory and/or kidney problems, which are difficult for owners to interpret:
- Amaryllis
- Asparagus Fern
- Azalea
- Bird of Paradise
- Creeping Charlie
- Crown of Thorns
- Elephant Ears
- Glocal Ivy
- Heart Ivy
- Ivy
- Jerusalem Cherry
- Needlepoint Ivy
- Pot Mum
- Ripple Ivy
- Spider Mum
- Sprangeri Fern
- Umbrella Plant
OUTDOOR PLANTS WITH TOXIC EFFECTS:
Outdoor Plants that produce vomiting and diarrhea in some cases.
- Bittersweet Woody
- Daffodil
- Delphinium
- Castor Bean
- Foxglove
- Ground Cherry
- Indian Tobacco
- Indian Turnip
- Larkspur
- Poke Weed
- Skunk Cabbage
- Soapberry
- Wisteria
Trees and shrubs that are poisonous and may produce vomiting, abdominal pain and in some cases diarrhea:
- Almond Peach
- American Yew
- Apricot
- Balsam Pear
- Bird of Paradise
- Black Locust
- Buckeye
- Cherry
- English Holly
- English Yew
- Horse Chestnut
- Japanese Plum
- Mock Orange
- Monkey Pod
- Privet
- Rain Tree
- Western Yew
Outdoor Plants with varied toxic effect:
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Buttercup
- Dologeton
- Dutchman’s Breeches
- Jasmine
- Jimsonweed
- Locoweed
- Lupine
- Matrimony Vine
- Mayapple
- Mescal Bean
- Moonseed
- Mushrooms
- Nightshade
- Pigweed
- Poison Hemlock
- Rhubarb
- Spinach
- Sunburned Potatoes
- Tomato Vine
- Water Hemlock
Hallucinogens:
- Locoweed
- Marijuana
- Morning Glory
- Nutmeg
- Periwinkle
- Peyote
Outdoor Plants that produce convulsions:
- Chinaberry
- Coriaria
- Moonweed
- Nux Vomica
- Water Hemlock
- Wild Cherry