Poisonous Plants
This plant’s sap reacts with sunlight to cause severe blistering burns that can last months.
What is Wild Parsnip?
This invasive plant can grow up to a foot per day and smotheres trees, buildings, and utility poles.
What is Kuzdu?
Kudzu was originally brought to the U.S. from this country in the 1800s.
What is Japan?
This is the same plant that famously killed Socrates and causes progressive paralysis.
What is Poison Hemlock?
This thorny invasive was originally promoted by the USDA as a “living fence” — and is now a legally listed noxious weed in both Kansas and Missouri.
What is Multiflora Rose?
This invasive plant spreads largely because birds eat its berries and deposit seeds across the forest.
What is Bush Honeysuckle?
The oil from this plant is called urushiol, and burning it releases smoke that can damage your lungs.
What is Poison Ivy?
This invasive grass is a massive problem for corn and soybean farmers, and can actually produce cyanide compounds after drought or frost stress.
What is Johnson Grass?
Pokeweed’s berries were historically used for these purposes, other than eating. (will take one answer, but if the other group gets both, they can get the point.)
What is Ink/dye?
Considered the most violently toxic plant in North America, a single mouthful of the root can kill a cow.
What is Water Hemlock?
This invasive shrub leafs out early in spring, holds leaves late into fall, and forms dense thickets that wipe out native wildflowers underneath.
What is Bush Honeysuckle?
Poison Hemlock is commonly mistaken for this other white-flowered plant found along roadsides.
What is Queen Anne’s Lace?
This plant has large trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom at dusk and spiky seed pods — all parts cause hallucinations and have landed teens in the hospital.
What is Jimsonweed?
This prairie-killing plant is fire-resistant, deep-rooted, and burns actually help it spread rather than control it.
Sericea Lespedeza
Pokeweed can grow to over this height, and its most toxic part is this.
What is 10+ feet tall, and the roots?