Poisonous Plants

Poison-Hemlock: In the Apiaceae family. Characteristics include purple in the stem, white umbels upon umbels flowers. All parts are poisonous to humans, and livestock. May be confused hemlock root with wild parsnips, hemlock leaves with parsley, or hemlock seed with anise.

 


Deadly Night Shade - In the Solanaceae family, also known as the night shade family which include tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. The leaves on the deadly night shade plant looks like a tomato plant. The berries are very poisonous.

 

Note: Please let me know if any of this info is incorrect. It's what I remember from my 90 minutes class on plant families.