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Author is Shay Stratford
A common misconception - toxic plants don't taste good - animals will not eat them!
Healthy Llamas may be more resistent to minor toxic ingestions
Certain conditions will favor the ingestion of poisonous plants - cold weather, drought and herbicides.
Below you will find a list of plant photos to help you with visual identification.. Click on the plant names below to see photos: (photos from Shay Stratford )
- Azalea
- Bracken Fern
- Castor Bean
- Cherry - Cherry #2- Cherry #3 - Cherry #4- Cherry #5- Cherry #6
- Crotalaria - Crotalaria #2
- Flame Azalea
- Hemp Dogbane
- Jessamine - Jessamine #2 - Jessamine#3
- Johnson Grass - When under drought or stress, Johnson Grass produces an acid that is very toxic to horses and cattle. 1 seed produces 5,000 seeds a year and can lie dormant in the soil for 20 years. Also it destroys other forage around it.
- Lantana - Lantana #2
- Mountain Laurel
- Nightshade - Nightshade #2
- Oleander
- Poke Weed
- Redroot Pigweed
- Rhododendron - Rhododendron #2
- Sicklepod
- St Johns Wort
- Water Hemlock - Water Hemlock #2
- Yew
REMEMBER:
- Plants vary with the seasons
- Plant populations change with time
- Plant identification can be tricky
- Look high and low - from ground covers to vines high in trees
- Remember landscape plants
Here is a list of information on different poisonous plants, their locations and the signs that your animal may have ingested the plant
Plant |
Location(s) |
Signs |
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Arrowgrass |
Meadows, low to moderate elevation |
Muscle twitching, convulsions, difficult breathing |
|
Mountain
Laurel, |
Mountains of NW and east. Also ornamental. |
Violent vomiting and retching, colic, loss of appetite, muscle twitches |
|
Tobacco Tree
or |
Waste places |
Convulsions, then depression and sweating |
|
Oleander, |
Ornamental |
Difficult breathing, heart failure, colic, diarrhea, blue membranes of the mouth |
|
Castrobean |
Ornamental |
Severe diarrhea |
|
Wild
Cherry, |
Existing everywhere |
Difficult breathing, convulsions, bright red blood and rapid death. |
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Jimsonweed |
Existing everywhere |
Dry mucous membranes, dilated pupils, disorganized behavior and excessively excitable |
|
Nightshade |
Existing everywhere |
Vomiting, weakness, groaning |
|
Water hemlock |
Existing everywhere |
Foaming at mouth, convulsion, muscle twitching, death in 15-30 minutes |
|
False
Hellebore, |
High mountains and meadows |
Vomiting, salivation, convulsions, fast irregular pulse |
|
Death
Camas, |
Hills, fields, meadows in Spring |
Foaming at mouth, convulsions, vomiting, fast weak pulse |
|
Dogbane, |
Existing everywhere |
Convulsions, vomiting, diarrhea, irregular pulse |
|
Western |
High mountain meadows |
Vomiting, frothing at the mouth, depression, coughing, weak and irregular pulse |
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