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Toxic Plants of East TN

For toxicology course at UTCVM. These plants are toxic to small animals and/or livestock.

common bracken 1
Pteridium aquilinum
tall fescue 2
Festuca arundinacea
Sorghum 3
Sorghum bicolor
Redroot Pigweed 4
Amaranthus retroflexus
oaks 5
Quercus
plums, cherries, and allies 6
Prunus
American pokeweed 7
Phytolacca americana
Cassia 8
Rattlepods
Crotalaria
riverhemps 9
Sesbania
buckeyes and horse-chestnuts 10
Aesculus
Cicuta 11
melilots and sweetclovers 12
Melilotus
poison hemlock 13
Conium maculatum
mountain-laurels 14
Kalmia
milkweeds 15
Asclepias
jimsonweed 16
Datura stramonium
nightshades 17
Solanum
yews 18
Taxus
Claviceps paspali 19
white snakeroot 20
Ageratina altissima
sneezeweeds 21
Helenium
Caladium 22
Easter lily 23
Lilium longiflorum
cockleburs 24
Xanthium
common St. John's-wort 25
Hypericum perforatum
Cottons 9
Gossypium
beefsteak plant 26
Perilla frutescens
cabbages and allies 27
Brassica
buttercups 28
Ranunculus
hairy vetch 29
Vicia villosa
Carolina sweetshrub 30
Calycanthus floridus
common oleander 31
Nerium oleander
yellow jessamine 23
Gelsemium sempervirens
privets 32
Ligustrum
Cassia 8
rhododendrons and azaleas 33
Rhododendron
Walnuts 34
Juglans
Locoweed 35
Oxytropis
red maple 36
Acer rubrum
castor bean 37
Ricinus communis
spurges 38
Euphorbia
larkspurs 39
Delphinium
lupines 40
Lupinus
horsetails 32
Equisetum
purple foxglove 41
Digitalis purpurea
groundsels 42
Senecio
False Hellebores 43
Veratrum
common ivy 44
Hedera helix
common lantana 45
Lantana camara
docks 46
Rumex

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