Here is a quick reference guide to the more common house and garden plants and foods that are toxic to most all animals. If you have these plants or foods, you need not dispose of them-just keep them away from your pets.

*Indicates that a substance is especially dangerous and can be fatal.

  Alcohol (all beverages, ethanol, methanol, isopropyl)*

 Allmonds*

 Amarylis bulb*

 Apricot*

 Autumn crocus ( Colchicum autumnale)*

 Avocado (leaves, seeds, stem, skin)*

 Azalea (entire rhododendron family)

 Begonia*

 Bird of Paradise

 Bittersweet

 Bleeding heart*

 Boxwood

 Bracken fern

 Buckeye

 Buttercup (Ranunculus)

 Caffeine

 Caladium*

 Calla lily*

 Castor bean* (can be fatal if chewed)

 Cherry

 Chinese sacred or heavenly bamboo*

 Chocolate

 Choke cherry (unripe berries)*

 Chrysanthemum (a natural source of pyrethrins)

 Clematis

 Crocus bulb

 Croton (Codiaeum sp.)

 Cyclamen bulb

 Delphenium, larkspur, monkshood*

 Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)*

 Elderberry (unripe berries)

 English ivy (All Hedera species of ivy)

 Fig (Ficus)

 Four-o'clocks (Mirabilis)

 Foxglove (Digitalis)

 Garlic*

 Hyacinth bulbs

 Hydrangea*

 Holly berries

 Iris corms

 Jack-in-the-pulpit*

 Jimson weed*

 Kalanchoe*

 Lantana*

 Lily (bulbs of most species)

 Lily-of-the-valley

 Lupine species

 Milkweed*

 Mistletoe berries*

 Morning glory*

 Mountain laurel

 Narcissus, daffodil (Narcissus)

 Oak* (remove bark for use as a bird perch)

 Oleander*

 Onions*

 Peaches*

 Pencil cactus plant* (Euphorbia sp.)

 Philodendron (all species)*

 Poinsettia (many hybrids, avoid them all)

 Potato (leaves and stem)

 Rhubarb leaves*

 Rosary Pea(Arbus sp.)* (Can be fatal if chewed)

 Scheffelera (umbrella plant)

 Shamrock (Oxalis sp.)*

 Spurge (Euphorbia sp.)

 Tomatoes (leaves and stem)