Last updated:
21 July 2008

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These pages of health-care tips are dedicated in loving memory of Blackie.   He was a gift to us, a gift of love.
TOXIC PLANTS

This listing isn't intended to be "all-inclusive", it's a listing of those common plants that our horses are likely to be exposed to.  It was gained through the services of the Hoofbeats In Heaven Equine Loss Support Group, a group dedicated to helping those who have lost a beloved horse deal with our losses.  To them I am eternally grateful.
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Most of the plants listed here are not normally acceptable to the horse.  Conditions of drought and sparse grazing may cause the horse to consume potentially toxic plants.  A good rule of thumb is to consider all ornamentals as potentially toxic to the horse.  Therefore, ornamentals should not be planted near paddocks or areas a horse can reach.  Another rule of thumb is to never feed ornamental clippings to horses or allow them to have access to clippings.  Drying of toxic ornamentals often makes the ornamentals more palatable and concentrates the toxin in the plant.

atamasco lily
azaleas
bitter sneezeweed
black cherry
black locust
black nightshade
black walnut
bladderpod
boxwood
bracken fern
buttercup
castor bean
cherry laurel
chinaberry
choke cherry
coffee senna
common buttonbush
common cocklebur
common sneezeweed
common yarrow
pokeberry
rattlebox
red buckeye
redroot pigweed
rosebay
sesbania
scotch broom
sheep laurel
showy crotalaria
sicklepod
spotted water hemlock
St. John's root
stagger grass
swetshrub
white snakeroot
yellow jessamine
privet
red maple
rhododendron
yew

eastern baccharis
fetterbush
great laurel
hairy vetch
hemp dogbane
horsenettle
jimsonweed
johnsongrass
lantana
ligustrum
maleberry
Mexican prickly poppy
milkweed
mountain laurel
mustard
oleander
perilla mint
poison hemlock
poison ivy
poison sumac

 

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