Poisonous Plants
Which wild plants are poisonous? How will I recognize them? How toxic are they? In this class, we answer these questions and more while learning some of our most common poisonous plants, as well as edible plants people mistake them for. Poisonous plants in this presentation include: poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), water hemlock (Cicuta species), death camas (various genera), false hellebore (Veratrum species), baneberry (Actaea species), larkspur (Delphinium species), monkshood (Aconitum species), iris (Iris species), poison ivy/oak (Toxicodendron species), and poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix).
