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Common Names: Precatory Bean, Rosary Pea, Jequirity Bean, Prayer Bean, Love Bean, Lucky Bean Description: Twining, more or less woody perennial vine of the legume family. Flowers are rose to purple, rarely white, small and pea-like. Fruit is a short legume pod. Seeds are oval, brilliant red and jet black shiny beans. Toxic Part: Seeds. Symptoms: Severe stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, trembling, weakness, cold sweat, drowsiness, labored breathing, anemia, convulsions, weak and fast pulse, kidney failure, circulatory collapse, coma and death.
Actaea rubra var. arguta
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Common Names: Western Baneberry, Red Baneberry, Snakeberry Description: Tall perennial herb with large, spreading toothed leaves and thick root. Has white flowers and red berries. Toxic Parts: All parts, but mostly the berries, root, and sap. Symptoms: Severe stomach and abdominal pains, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness, delirium, increased pulse, and circulatory failure.
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Common Names Monkshood, Aconite, Friar's Cap, Helmet Flower, Soldier's Cap, Wolfsbane Description: Perennials 2-6 feet in height. Resemble delphiniums. Flowers usually blue but may be white, pink, or flesh toned. Dried seed pods contain numerous tiny seeds. Toxic Part: Whole plant, especially the leaves and roots. Symptoms: Burning sensation of the lips, tongue, mouth and throat. Nausea and vomiting may develop.
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Common Names: Horse Chestnut, Buckeye, Bongay,Conquerors, Fish Poison, Marronnier,
Marronnier d'Inde.
Description: About 13 species, mostly large trees. Flowers may be white, white blotched with red and yellow, pink, yellow and red, or red. Seed is leathery and smooth or warty. Buckeye seed is glossy brown with a white scar. The seed may be covered with spines. Toxic Part: Nuts and twigs. Symptoms: Severe gastroenteritis.
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Common names: Star Cactus, Sabila, Sempervivum,
Sinkle Bible, Zabila, Zavila Description: About 250 species. Leaves usually
appear in compact rosettes and are thick, hard, pointed and may have spines or teeth along the margins. Flowers usually red or yellow. Toxic Part: Latex beneath the skin. Symptoms: Vomiting after ingestion.
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Common Names: Death Cap Mushroom, Deadly Amanita Mushroom, White Amanita Mushroom Description: Chalky white with a bulbous base. Toxic Part: Entire plant. Symptoms: Sudden and severe abdominal pain, profuse vomiting, diarrhea, distorted vision, excessive thirst, circulatory failure, prostration, coma and death.
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Common names: Pasque Flower, Anemone, April Fools, Cats-Eyes, Gosling, Hartshorn Plant, Lily of the Field, Lion's Beard, Nightcaps, Nimble Weed, Prairie Crocus, Prairie Hen Flower, Prairie Smoke, Thimbleweed, Wild Crocus, Windflower. Description: Usually less than 1 foot tall. Flowers appear singly on stem - yellow, red, white or purple. Toxic Part: The whole plant is poisonous. Symptoms: Skin irritant and vesicant. Ingestion causes ulceration of the mouth and severe gastroenteritis.
Angel Trumpet Tree (see Brugmansia X candida)
Apricot (Kernels) (see Prunus species)
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Common Names: Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Bog Onion, Brown Dragon, Cuckoo Plant, Indian Jack-in-the- Pulpit, Memory Root, Pepper Turnip, Petit Precheur, Priests Pentle, Small Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Starchwort, Three Leaved Indian Turnip, Wake Robin. Description: Two leaves branching from the stalk with three lance-shaped leaflets at the end. Flower may be green, green striped with brown, or brown. Berries are red. Toxic Part: Whole plant. Symptoms: Burning of the lips, mouth and throat.
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Common Names: Milkweed Description: There are approximately 20 different species. They are perennial, summer or autumn flowering herbs with milky juice. They have erect, non-twining stems. The fruit is the familiar inflated milk-weed pod filled with numerous seeds, each bearing a tuft of long, silky hairs. There are two major groups, narrow-leaved and broad-leaved. Toxic Parts: Entire plant. Symptoms: Profound depression, weakness, tetanic seizures, labored respiration, elevated temperature.
Baneberry (see Actaea rubra var. arguta)
Bittersweet (see Solanum dulcamara)
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Common names: Angel TrumpetTree, Belladonna, Campana, Cornucopia, Floripondio Description: May grow to 20 feet in height. Flowers are white, yellowish white, or pinkish white. Toxic Part: Whole plant is toxic, but flowers and seeds are most often implicated in poisoning. Symptoms: Dry mouth, dry warm skin, tachycardia and delirium with hallucinations.
Buckeye (see Aesculus species)
Buttercups (see Ranunculus species)