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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
white snakeroot 19
Ageratina altissima
sneezeweeds 20
Helenium
Caladium 21
Easter lily 22
Lilium longiflorum
cockleburs 23
Xanthium
common St. John's-wort 24
Hypericum perforatum
Cottons 9
Gossypium
beefsteak plant 25
Perilla frutescens
cabbages and allies 26
Brassica
buttercups 27
Ranunculus
hairy vetch 28
Vicia villosa
Carolina sweetshrub 29
Calycanthus floridus
common oleander 30
Nerium oleander
yellow jessamine 22
Gelsemium sempervirens
privets 31
Ligustrum
Cassia 8
rhododendrons and azaleas 32
Rhododendron
Walnuts 33
Juglans
Locoweed 34
Oxytropis
red maple 35
Acer rubrum
castor bean 36
Ricinus communis
spurges 37
Euphorbia
larkspurs 38
Delphinium
lupines 39
Lupinus
horsetails 31
Equisetum
purple foxglove 40
Digitalis purpurea
groundsels 41
Senecio
False Hellebores 42
Veratrum
common ivy 43
Hedera helix
common lantana 44
Lantana camara
docks 45
Rumex

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