8 Mississippi Poisonous Plants to Avoid

Highly toxic perennial herb with umbrella-shaped white flower clusters and purple-spotted stems. Thrives in wet soil near marshes, riverbanks, ponds, and streams.

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Water Hemlock

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Tiny white blooms and toothed leaves. Threatens cattle in Mississippi fields and humans via milk toxin transmission.

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White Snakeroot

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Tall shrub with linear, blueish-green scalelike leaves. Produces little greenish-yellow umbels in pastures, abandoned fields, and moist locations.

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Leafy Spurge

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Lance-shaped leaves and fragrant, bright blooms. Ingesting this wetland plant is toxic.

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Oleander

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Toxic, invasive crown vetch in Mississippi: beautiful flowers, but difficult to control due to prolific seeds and aggressive roots.

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Crown Vetch

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Three-leaflet serrated vine or shrub. Produces little blooms and cream-colored berries that may trail or climb 75 feet in appropriate settings.

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Poison Ivy

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Lance-shaped leaves, white blooms, and dark purple berries. Avoid eating this deadly plant.

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Caffeine and Fertility

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A large perennial plant with lance-shaped leaves, white blooms, and dark purple berries. Don't eat this plant.

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Jimsonweed

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