Avoid using or experimenting with the plants that are listed on this section. Some of them possess highly potent medical properties and should only be used by experienced professional herbalists. Many of the botanicals included in the following list of dangerous plants are poisonous in part or in whole and cause serious illness or death if not used properly.
Aconite
Bittersweet
Black nightshade
Blue flag
Burning bush
Calabar bean
Calico bush
Camphor
Castor oil plant (seeds)
Celandine
Christmas rose (root)
Cowbane
Daffodils
Deadly nightshade
Dog's mercury
Elkweed
Ergot
Fava bean
Flag lily
Foxglove
Gelsemium
Hellebore
Hemlock
Hemp
Henbane
Holly (seeds)
Honysuckle (vine and fruits)
Horse balm
Ilex
Impatiens pallida
Indian arrowroot
Indian hemp
Indian tobacco
Inkberry
Jack-in-the-pulpit (root)
Jerusalem cherry
Jimsonweed
Laburnum (seeds)
Laurel (seeds)
Mandrake
Mayapple (roots, leaves, seeds)
Mistletoe (seeds)
Monkshood
Poisetta
Poison dogwood, flag, hemlock,ivy, oak, and sumac
Poke root
Rosebay
Springle tree (seeds)
Spurge
Swallow wort
Thorn apple
Tobacco
Wahoo
Wake-robin
Water dropwort
White bryony
White hemlock
Winter rose
Wolfsbane
Wood anemone (seeds)
Yellow jasmine
Yew (seeds and berries)
*~Amara~*
