Poisonous Foods and Plants

This list has been compiled from a variety of sources and is not complete. To be safe, you should always check with your veterinarian if your dog eats any plant material. Ingestion can cause a wide range of symptoms including vomitting, diarrhea, seizures, coma and ocassionally death. Better safe than sorry!

Some plants are more toxic than others and symptoms will vary with the plant and amount ingested. With some plants only certain parts are toxic (i.e. roots, seeds, fruit, leaves or stems). The common name for Dieffenbachia is dumb cane, so-named because the the sap will burn the mouth and can cause paralysis of the vocal chords.

Many of the frequently-planted spring-flowering bulbs are toxic, most particularly lily-of-the-valley, daffodils and tulips. Autumn-flowering bulbs such as Colchicum are also highly toxic. If you have a digger, it's best to avoid these bulbs unless they are completely inaccessible.

Common names are very difficult to go by as they tend to vary by region. Latin names are much more precise (although even they change with astonishing regularity) but many people don't know the Latin name. I've tried to list as many variations as possible.

Common names are shown in Roman text, Latin names in italics.

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
A
Aloe vera	Amaryllis	American yew	Angel's trumpet
apple seeds	apricot	asparagus fern	Asparagus d. 'Sprengeri'
avocado (fruit & pit)	azalea
B
Baby's Breath	Balsam pear	Bird of Paradise	bittersweet
black locust	Boston ivy	Buddhist pine	buttercup
C
Caladium	calla lily	castor bean	cherry
Chinaberry	Chinese evergreen	Christmas rose	Chrysanthemum
cineraria	Clematis	coriaria	Cordatum
corn plant	creeping Charlie	creeping fig	Croton
Crown of thorns	Cuban laurel	Cyclamen	Cycads
D
daffodil	Delphinium	Devil's ivy	Dieffenbachia
Dologeton	Dracaena sp.	dragon tree	drunk cane
dumb cane	Dutchman's breeches
E
Easter lily	Elaine	elephant ears	emerald duke
emerald feather	English ivy	English yew	Euphorbia
F
Ficus benjamina	Ficus lyrata	Ficus pumila	fiddle-leaf fig
foxglove	Florida beauty	fruit salad plant
G
Geranium	German ivy	glocal ivy	gold dieffenbachia
gold dust dracaena	golden pothos	ground cherry
H
heart ivy	heart leaf philodendron	Hedera helix	Hibiscus
holly	horse chestnuts	horsehead philodendron	hurricane plant
I
Indian laurel	Indian rubber plant	Indian tobacco	Indian turnip
ivy
J
Janet Craig dracaena	Japanese plum	Japanese show lily	jasmine
Jerusalem cherry	jimsonweed
K
Kalanchoe
L
lacy tree philodendron	larkspur	lily-of-the-valley	loco weed
Lupine
M
Madagascar dragon tree	majesty	marble queen	marijuana
matrimony vine	May apple	mescal bean	miniature croton
mistletoe	mock orange	monkey pod	moonseed
moonweed	morning glory	mother-in-law's tongue	mushrooms
N
Narcissus	needlepoint ivy	nightshade	nutmeg
O
oleander	onion	Oriental lily
P
panda bear plant	peace lily	peach	pencil cactus
periwinkle	peyote	Philodendron	Philodendron partusum
plumrose fern	pig weed	Poinsettia	poison hemlock
poison ivy	poison oak	poke weed	potted mum
potato (sunburned)	pothos	precatory bean	primrose
Primula	privet
R
rain tree	red emerald	red princess	red-margined dracaena
Rhododendron	rhubarb	ribbon plant	ripple ivy
rubber plant
S
saddle leaf philodendron	sago palm	Sansevieria	satin pothos
Schefflera	silver pothos	skunk cabbage	snake plant
soap berry	spider mum	spinach plant	split leaf philodendron
spotted dumb cane	Sprengeri fern	string of pearls/beads	striped dracaena
sweetheart ivy	swiss cheese plant
T
taro vine	tiger lily	tomato plant	tree philodendron
tropic snow dieffenbachia
U
umbrella plant
V
variegated philodendron	variegated rubber plant
W
Warneckei dracaena	water hemlock	weeping fig	western yew
wild cherry	Wisteria
Y
yew (Taxus)