Toxic Wild Plants To Avoid While Wild Food Foraging was designed to introduce homesteading readers to some of the most common toxic wild plants to avoid completely while wild food foraging.
Wild plants can be found just about everywhere and while many of them are completely harmless and in some cases extremely beneficial to people and and animals.
However, there are many species of plants that should be totally avoided. These wild plants can be very toxic to humans and animals.
Although many wild plants are tasty and nutritious, some are poisonous – and a few look alike – so taking classes, research and taking a sampling of plants to your local state extension office where they can verify.
The author of this article is extremely knowledgeable about wild plants and was looking to help educate the reader about how to identify some of the most common wild plants that are actually very toxic and should therefore be avoided at all cost.
Virginia Creeper
Red Baneberry
Bittersweet Nightshade
English Yew
Fool’s Parsley
Hairy-Stemmed Spurge
Poison Hemlock
The author goes into great detail to show examples of the plants and explain why they are so dangerous.
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