| These pages of health-care tips are dedicated in loving memory of Blackie. He was a gift to us, a gift of love. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Toxic Plants |
| azaleas bitter sneezeweed black cherry black locust black nightshade black walnut bladderpod boxwood bracken fern buttercup cherry laurel chinaberry choke cherry coffee senna common buttonbush common cocklebur common sneezeweed common yarrow |
| 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 |
| 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 rattlebox |
