If your pet chews or ingests any of the following plants or shows symptoms please call:
ASPCA NATIONAL ANIMAL POISON CONTROL CENTER
web site: http://www.napcc.aspca.org/
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 gets swollen; painful tongue; sore lips:
Arrowhead Vine
Boston Ivy
Collodium
Drunk Cane
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
Wild Cherry
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
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POISONOUS PLANTS