Plants and Your Cat:

Since cats are very curious, they tend to get into lots of things that are potentially harmful. If you believe your cat has been poisoned either by plants or other substances, you should take the following actions:

1. Don't panic.

2. If your cat is showing signs of poisoning, such as drooling, vomiting, irritation of the mouth, diarrhoea, or abdominal pain, try to identify what your cat has gotten into. If you suspect or know for sure it is poisonous,

take your cat to the nearest vet clinic immediately.

Also take along what the cat was eating.

List of Plants Poisonous or Harmful to Cats

Note: This list is not all-inclusive. When in doubt, contact your vet.

A. Houseplants:

1. Give rash after contact:

Chrysanthemum Creeping fig

Weeping fig (ficus) Poinsettia

Pot mum Spider mum

2. Irritants (mouth gets swollen, tongue pain, sore lips):

Calla lily Red princess

Boston ivy Pothos

Caladium Dieffenbachia (dumb cane)

Emerald duke Marble queen

Majesty Nephthytis (arrowhead vine)

Parlor ivy

Heart leaf, split leaf, and saddle leaf philodendrons)

3. Toxic (can cause vomiting, abdominal pain, cramps, tremors, heart and respiratory and/or kidney problems):

Amaryllis Asparagus fern

Azalea Bird of paradise

Creeping charlie Euphorbia (Crown of thorns)

Elephant ears Algerian ivy

Heart ivy English Ivy

Jerusalem cherry Pot mum

Spider mum Sprengeri fern

Umbrella plant Spathiphyllum

Hydrangea Christmas rose

Lily of the valley

4. Other houseplants with assorted toxic effects:

Tulip Daffodil

English holly Iris

Mistletoe Spider plant

Schefflera Pencil, peyote, and candelabra cacti

B. Outdoor plants with toxic effects:

1. Outdoor plants that may produce vomiting and diarrhea:

Delphinium Daffodil

Castor bean Indian turnip

Skunk cabbage Poke weed

Bittersweet Ground cherry

Foxglove Larkspur

Wisteria

2. Trees and shrubs that may produce vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea:

Horse Chestnut Western Yew

English holly American Yew

Mock Orange English Yew

Privet Black locust

Balsam Pear Japanese plum

Wild cherry Peach

Apricot Almond

Buckeye

3. Outdoor plants with varied toxic effects:

Rhubarb Spinach

Sunburned potatoes Loco weed

Lupine Matrimony vine

Buttercup Nightshade

Poison Hemlock Water Hemlock

Mushrooms May apple

Dutchman's breeches Jasmine

4. Hallucinogens:

Marijuana Morning glory

Nutmeg Periwinkle

Peyote Loco weed

5. Convulsions:

China berry Water hemlock

6. Other plants that are poisonous to cats:

Aconite - roots, foliage, leaves.

Apple - seeds.

Arrow grasses - leaves.

Atropa belladonna - entire plant.

Autumn Crocus - entire plant.

Baneberry - berries, roots.

Blood root - entire plant.

Box - entire plant.

Buttercup - entire plant.

Carolina jessamine - flowers, leaves.

Chockcherries - leaves, cherries, pits.

Christmas berry - leaves.

Common privet - leaves, berries.

Corn cockle - seeds.

Cowbane - Entire plant.

Cow cockle - seeds.

Cowslip - entire plant.

Daphne - bark, berries, leaves.

Death camas - leaves, stems, seeds, flowers.

European Bittersweet - entire plant.

False Flax - seeds.

False hellebore - roots, leaves, seeds.

Fan weed - seeds.

Field peppergrass - seeds.

Flax - seed-pods.

Holly - berries.

Horse nettle - entire plant.

Hyacinth - bulbs.

Jack-in-the-pulpit - entire plant.

Jatropher - seeds.

Jimsonweed - seeds.

Laburnum - seeds, pods, flowers.

Lantana - foliage.

Laurels - leaves.

Manchineel Tree - sap, fruit.

Milk vetch - entire plant.

Monkshood - entire plant.

Moonseed - fruit, roots.

Mountain mahogany - leaves.

Mustards - seeds.

Narcissus - bulbs.

Nicotiana - leaves.

Oaks - shoots, leaves.

Oleander - leaves.

Pokeweed - roots, seeds, berries.

Poinsettia - leaves, stems, flowers.

Poison hemlock - leaves, stems, flowers.

Potato - shoots, sprouts.

Rattle box - entire plant.

Rhododendron - leaves.

Rosary pea - seeds.

Smartweeds -sap.

Snow-on-the-mountain - sap.

Sorghum - leaves.

Star of Bethlehem - entire plant.

Velvet grass - leaves.

Wild radish - seeds.

Woody aster - entire plant.

Yellow jasmine - entire plant.

Yellow oleander - entire plant.

Yellow pine flux - entire plant.

Yew - bark, leaves, seeds.

List of plants safe for cats:

Begonia Wandering jew

Cast iron plant Coleus

Dracaena Grape ivy

Mosaic plant Piggyback

Pink polka dot Peperomia

Prayer plant Spleenwort

Ti plant

Cacti other than pencil, peyote, and candelabra

Succulents (including jade plant, donkey tail, coral bead)