Toxic Plants

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Following is a list of indoor and outdoor plants and trees which are hazardous to birds. 
It has been gathered from various sources and is by no means complete.

Unsafe Plants

Harmful Plants (first source)

Amaryllis - bulbs

American Yew

Avocado

Azalea - leaves

Balsam Pear - seeds, outer rind of fruit

Baneberry - berries, root

Bird of Paradise - seeds

Black Locust - bark, sprouts, foliage

Blue-green Algae - some forms toxic

Boxwood - leaves, stems

Buckthorn - fruit, bark

Buttercup - sap, bulbs

Caladium - leaves

Calla Lily - leaves

Castor Bean - also castor oil, leaves

Chalice Vine/Trumpet vine

Christmas Candle - sap

Clematis/Virginia Bower

Coral Plant - seeds

Cowslip/Marsh Marigold

Daffodil - bulbs

Daphne - berries

Datura - berries

Deadly Amanita

Death Camas

Delphinium

Deffenbachia/Dumb Cane - leaves

Eggplant - fruit okay

Elephants Ear/Taro - leaves, stem

English Ivy berries, leaves

English Yew

False Henbane

Fly Agaric Mushroom - Deadly Amanita

Foxglove - leaves, seeds

Golden Chain/Laburnum

Hemlock - also water the plant is in

Henbane - seeds

Holly - berries

Horse Chestnut/Buckeye - nuts, twigs

Hyacinth - bulbs

Hydrangea - flower bud

Indian Turnip/Jack-in-Pulpit

 

 

Iris/Blue Flag - bulbs

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Japanese Yew - needles, seeds

Java Bean - lima bean - uncooked

Juniper - needles, stems, berries

Lantana - immature berries

Larkspur

Laurel

Lily of the Valley - also water the plant is in

Lobelia

Locoweed

Lords and Ladies/Cuckoopint

Marijuana/Hemp - leaves

Mayapple - fruit is safe

Mescal Beans - seeds

Mistletoe - berries

Mock Orange - fruit

Monkshood/Aconite - leaves, root

Morning Glory

Narcissus - bulbs

Nightshade - all varieties

Oleander - leaves, branches, nectar

Philodendron - leaves and stem

Pointsetta - leaves, roots, immature

Poison Ivy - sap

Poison Oak - sap

Pokeweed/Inkberry - leaf,root,young berries

Potato - eyes, new shoots

Privet

Rhododendron

Rhubarb - leaves

Rosary Peas/Indian Licorice - seeds

Skunk Cabbage

Snowdrop

Snow on the Mountain/Ghostweed

Sweet Pea - seeds, fruit

Tobacco - leaves

Virginia Creeper - sap

Water Hemlock

Western Yew

Wisteria

Yam bean - roots, immature roots

Harmful Plants
(other sources) 

Alacia

Apricot

Autumn Crocus/Meadow Saffron

Beans - all types if uncooked

Birch

Bittersweet Nightshade

Bleeding Heart/Dutchman's Breeches

Bloodroot

Bracken Fern

Broomcorn Grass

Candelabra Tree

Cardinal Flower

Cherry Tree - bark, twigs, leaves, pits

Chinaberry Tree

Crown of Thorns

Croton

Elderberry

Euonymus/Spindle Tree

False Hellebore

Ficus (weeping)

Firethorn/Pyracantha

Four O'Clock

Glory Bean

Ground Cherry

Honey Locust

Honeysuckle

Horsetail

Indian Licorice Bean

Ivy

Jasmine

Jimsonweed/Thornapple

Jerusalem Cherry - berries

Johnson Grass

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Lupines/Bluebonnet

Mandrake

Mango Tree - wood,leaves,rind-fruit safe

Moonseed

Mountain Laurel

Mushrooms - several varieties

Nectarine

Nettles

Nutmeg

Oak - acorns, foliage

Peach

Peanuts - raw

Pencil Tree

Periwinkle

Pigweed

Pikeweed

Pine needles - berries

Plum

Pothos

Prune

Rain Tree

Ranunculus/Buttercup

Red Maple

Sandbox Tree

Scarlet Runner Beans

Snowflake

Sorghum Grass

Sorrel

Sudan Grass

Tansy Ragwort

Vetch

Yello Jasmine

Yew (Amer,Engl,Japan) - needles, thistles

Sources: American Medical Association Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants; R. Dean Axelson, Caring for Your Pet Bird; Gallerstein, Gary A., DVM, The Complete Bird Owner's Handbook; Garry Gallerstein, Bird Owner's Home Health and Care Handbook; Greg and Linda Harrison, eds, Clinical Avian Medicine and Surgery; Gillian Willis; Wade and Carol Olyer Parrot Pleasures, Safe Wood Products and more.


Photographs by Shirley A. Lawhorn, C.A.S.

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