Plants Toxic to Cats

Plants add the needed finishing touches to any decor. But, if you have a feline, that beautiful plant could become a deadly enemy.

Listed here are plants poisonous to cats that must be avoided if there are cats in your home. While in some cases, just parts of a plant (bark, leaves, seeds, berries, roots, tubers, sprouts, green shells) might be poisonous, this list rules out the whole plant. If you must have any of them, please keep them safely out of reach.

Should your feline friend eat part of a poisonous plant, rush the cat to your veterinarian as soon as possible. If you can, take the plant with you for ease of identification.

Alfalfa Almond (pits of) Alocasia Amaryllis Apple Seeds Apricot (pits of) Arrowgrass Avocado Azalea	Baneberry Bayonet Beargrass Beech Belladonna Bird of Paradise Bittersweet Black-eyed Susan Black Locust Bleeding Heart Bloodroot Bluebonnet Box Boxwood Buckeyes Burning Bush Buttercup	Cactus Candelabra Caladium Castor Bean Cherry (pits of) Cherry, most wild varieties Cherry, ground Cherry, Laurel Chinaberry Christmas Rose Chrysanthemum Clematis Coriaria Cornflower Corydalis Crocus, Autumn Crown of Thorns Cyclamen	Daffodil Daphne Datura Deadly Nightshade Death Camas Delphinium Dicentrea Dieffengachia Dumb Cane
Elderberry Elephant Ear English Ivy Euonymus Evergreen	Ferns Flax Four O' Clock Foxglove	Golden Chain Golden Glow Gopher Purge	Hellebore Hemlock, Poison Hemlock, Water Henbane Holly Honeysuckle Horsebeans Horsebrush Horse Chestnuts Hyacinth Hydrangea
Indian Tobacco Iris Iris Ivy	Jack in the Pulpit Java Beans Jessamine Jerusalem Cherry Jimson Weed Jonquil Jungle Trumpets	Lantana Larkspur Laurellily Lily Spider Lily of the Valley Locoweed Lupine	Marigold Marijuana Mescal Bean Mistletoe Mock Orange Monkshood Moonseed Morning Glory Mountain Laurel Mushrooms
Narcissus Nightshade Oleander	Peach (Pits of) Peony Periwinkle Philodendron Pimpernel Poinciana Poinsettia Poison Hemlock Poison Ivy Poison Oak Pokeweed Poppy Potato Precatory Bean Privet, Common	Rhododendron Rhubarb Rosary Pea Rubber Plant	Scotch Broom Skunk Cabbage Snowdrops Snow on the Mountain Staggerweed Star of Bethlehem Sweetpea
Tansy Mustard Tobacco Tomato Tulip Tung Tree	Virginia Creeper	Water Hemlock Weeping Fig Wild Call Wisteria	Yews --   e.g. Japanese Yew    English Yew    Western Yew    American Yew

If you have further information on plants that are poisonous to cats,
please send information and source to: Darbie at Moonmaid Cattery.

Also keep in mind, you pay good money to your vet for his or her services. Don't try to medicate your cat without your veterinarian's advice. Never give your cat acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Nuprin, Advil) -- they are all toxic to cats. And understand that salicylic acid (Aspirin) should only be given under a vet's direction.

Be careful what treats you give: chocolate is toxic to cats and dogs. That doesn't mean they don't like it -- just that you mustn't give it to them.

Reducing the exposure to harmful plants and disease will increase the chances of a long life. The average indoor/outdoor cat lives to be three. The average indoor cat lives to be 15. Please make the right choices for your fur family members.

A note on the history of this page:
I was given a list of plants toxic to cats more than 20 years ago, when I used to breed Burmese.
I am not a botanist; I am not a veterinarian. Therefore, I can not answer your question(s) about specific plants.
The reason I have re-posted this information (for several years, the cat links page provided a link to this information elsewhere) was because, the Internet being fluid, that page is no longer available.

I did a search and was unable to find any list as comprehensive as this one. However, I found this one link that has photos of 11 of the plants to avoid.