Poisonous Plants of America

April fool
Bear's-foot
Bog-onion
Devil's-apple
Dog parsley
Doll's-eyes
Fairy hells
Flying saucers
Four o'clock
Gagweed
Goosefoot
Hare's-ear
Indian beans
Inkweed
Jacob's-coat
Lady's-thumb
Lion's-beard
Locoweed
Monkey-fiddle
Moonseed
Mother-in-law
Puncture-vine
Naked lady
Quaker-bonnets
Rabbit-bush
Smartweed
Sneezeweed
Snakegrass
Stinking Willie
Sundials
Swallow-wort
Wahoo
Wart-cress
Witches' thimbles
Wolfsbane
Wonder berry
Elizabeth Willis, "Poisonous Plants of America" from Address. Copyright © 2011 by Elizabeth Willis. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Source: Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)
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