Caring for Our Children: Appendix U - Poisonous Plants and Safe Plants Poisonous Plants and Safe Plants Keep all plants away from small children. Teach children never to eat unknown plants. Different parts of the plant are poisonous. Phone the Poison Control Center before treating a child who has eaten a plant. Follow their directions. Keep an unexpired bottle of syrup of ipecac in a locked place if your policy allows. Use it only if the Poison Control Center or a physician tells you to make a child vomit. In some cases, vomiting may worsen the situation and increase the risk of severe health consequences. Poisonous Plants* Flower Garden Plants Autumn Crocus Bleeding heart Chrysanthemum Daffodil Four-o'clocks Foxglove Hyacinth Hydrangea Iris Jonquil Lily of the valley Morning glory Narcissus Snow on the mountain Trees and Shrubs Black locust Boxwood Chokecherry Elderberry English yew Ground ivy Horse chestnut, buckeye Juniper Oak tree Water hemlock Yew Vegetable Garden Plants Asparagus Sprouts and green parts of potato Rhubarb leaves Green parts of tomato House Plants Bird of paradise Castor bean Dumbcane (Dieffenbachia) English ivy Holly Jequirty bean (Rosary Pea) Jerusalem cherry Mistletoe Mother-in-law Oleander Philodendrom Poinsettia Rhododendron Wild Plants Belladonna Bittersweet Buttercups Indian hemp Jack-in-the-pulpit Jimson weed Larkspur Monkshood Mushrooms (certain ones) Nightshade Poison hemlock, ivy, oak. sumac and tobacco Skunk cabbage Safe Plants* African Violet Aluminum Plant Anthurium, Taliflower Aphelandra Baby tears Begonia Blood leaf Boston fern Christman cactus Coleus Corn plant Dracaena Emerald ripple, pepromia Hen-and-chickens Hoya Impatiens Jade Plant Parlor palm Pepronia Prayer plant Rubber plant Schefflera Sensitive plant Snake plant Spider plant Swedish ivy Velvet, purple passion Wandering jew Wax plant Weeping fig Yellow day lily Caring for Our Children, 2nd ed. Copyright 2002. National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care 1-800-598-KIDS(5437) info@nrckids.org