Non-Toxic Plants

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This list from the ASPCA contains plants that have not been reported as having systemic effects on animals or as having intense effects on the gastrointestinal tract. Any plant material ingested by an animal (as when dogs and cats ingest yard grass) may produce signs of vomiting, depression, or diarrhea. These signs are generally mild and self-limiting and often do not require any treatment.

Please note that the information contained in our plant lists is not meant to be all-inclusive, but rather a compilation of the most frequently encountered plants.

If you think that your animal is ill or may have ingested a poisonous substance, contact your local veterinarian or the ASPCA 24-hour emergency poison hotline directly at 1-888-426-4435.

 

A

  • Achira
  • Acorn squash
  • African violet
  • Algaroba
  • Aluminum plant
  • Alumroot
  • American rubber
  • Anthericum comosum
  • Antirrhinum multiflorum
  • Arabian gentian
  • Aregelia
  • Artillery plant
  • Aspidium falcatum
  • Autumn olive

B

  • Bachelors buttons
  • Ball fern
  • Bamboo
  • Bamboo palm
  • Bamboo vine
  • Banana
  • Banana squash
  • Begonia species
  • Belmore sentry palm
  • Big shellbark hickory
  • Bitter pecan
  • Bitternut
  • Black haw
  • Black hawthorn
  • Blaspheme vine
  • Bloodleaf
  • Blooming sally
  • Bluebottle
  • Blue bead
  • Blue daisy
  • Blue echeveria
  • Blue-dicks
  • Blue-eyed daisy
  • Blunt leaf peperomia
  • Blushing bromeliad
  • Bold sword fern
  • Boston fern
  • Bottlebrush
  • Bottle Palm
  • Brazilian orchid
  • Bride’s bonnet
  • Bristly greenbrier
  • Broom hickory
  • Brodiaea pulchella
  • Butterfly ginger
  • Butterfly iris
  • Bullbrier
  • Bur gourd
  • Burro’s tail
  • Buttercup squash
  • Butterfly squash

C

  • Caeroba
  • Calathea insignis
  • Calthea lancifolia
  • California pitcher plant
  • Callistemon bradyandrus
  • Callistemon viminalis
  • Callistemon citrinus
  • Calochortus nuttalli
  • Camellia
  • Canada hemlock
  • Canary date palm
  • Candle plant
  • Candycorn plant
  • Canna lily
  • Cantebury-bell
  • Cape jasmine
  • Cape primrose
  • Carob
  • Carob tree
  • Caroba
  • Carobinha
  • Carolina hemlock
  • Carrion flower
  • Carrot flower
  • Carrot fern
  • Casaba melon
  • Cast Iron plant
  • Cat brier
  • Cat ear
  • Cattleya labiata
  • Celosia globosa
  • Celosia plumosa
  • Celosia spicata
  • Chamaedorean
  • Chaparral
  • Chenille plant
  • Chestnut
  • Chicken-gizzard
  • Chickens and hens
  • Chin-lao-shu
  • China aster
  • China root
  • Chinese plumbago
  • Chlorophytum
  • Chlorophytum bechetii
  • Chocolate soldier
  • Christmas dagger
  • Christmas palm
  • Christmas orchid
  • Cinnamon
  • Cinquefoil
  • Cirrhopetalum
  • Clearweed
  • Cliff brake
  • Cocks comb
  • Cocktail orchid
  • Collinia elegans
  • Color-band
  • Columnar
  • Common camellia
  • Common catbrier
  • Common garden canna
  • Common greenbrier
  • Common snapdragon
  • Common staghorn fern
  • Confederate jasmine
  • Coolwort
  • Copperlead
  • Copper rose
  • Coralardisia
  • Coral bells
  • Coralberry
  • Cornflower
  • Crape myrtle
  • Creeping charlie
  • Creeping gloxinia
  • Creeping mahonia
  • Creeping pilea
  • Creeping rubus
  • Creeping zinnia
  • Crepe myrtle
  • Crimson bottlebush
  • Crimson cup
  • Crisped feather fern
  • Crossandra
  • Cucumber
  • Cushon aloe
  • Cushion moss
  • Cyrtudeira reptans

D

  • Dainty
  • Dainty rabbits-foot fern
  • Dallas fern
  • Dancing doll orchid
  • Davallia bullata mariessi
  • Davallia trichomanoides
  • Desert trumpet
  • Dichelostemma
  • Dichorisandra reginae
  • Dinteranthus vanzylii
  • Duffii fern
  • Duffy fern
  • Dwarf date palm
  • Dwarf feather fern
  • Dwarf palm
  • Dwarf Rose-Stripe Star
  • Dwarf royal palm
  • Dwarf whitman fern

E

  • Earth star
  • Easter cattleya
  • Easter daisy
  • Easter lily cactus
  • Easter orchid
  • Edible banana
  • Elephant-Ear Begonia
  • Emerald ripple peperomia
  • English hawthorn
  • Epidendrum atropurpeum
  • Epidendrum ibaguense
  • Epidendrum
  • Episcia spp.

F

  • False aralia
  • Fairy fountain
  • Fan tufted palm
  • Feather fern
  • Feathered amaranth
  • Fiery reed orchid
  • Fig leaf gourd
  • Figleaf palm
  • Fingernail plant
  • Fire weed
  • Fish tail fern
  • Flame african violet
  • Flame of the woods
  • Flame violet
  • Florida butter-fly orchid
  • Fluffy ruffles
  • Forster sentry palm
  • Fortunes palm
  • Freckle face
  • Friendship plant
  • Frosty

G

 

  • Garden marigold
  • Garden snapdragon
  • German violet
  • Gherkins
  • Ghost leafless orchid
  • Ghost plant
  • Giant aster
  • Giant holly fern
  • Giant white inch plant
  • Gibasis geniculata
  • Globe thistle
  • Gloxinia
  • Gold bloom
  • Gold-fish plant
  • Golden bells
  • Golden lace orchid
  • Golden shower orchid
  • Good luck palm
  • Grape hyacinth
  • Grape Ivy
  • Great willow herb
  • Green ripple peperomia
  • Greenbrier

H

 

  • Hagbrier
  • Hardy baby tears
  • Hardy gloxinia
  • Haws
  • Haws apple
  • Haworthia
  • Hawthorn
  • Hedgehog gourd
  • Hellfetter
  • Hemlock tree
  • Hen and chickens fern
  • Hens and chickens
  • Hickory
  • Hindu rope plant
  • Holligold
  • Holly fern
  • Hollyhock
  • Honey locust
  • Honey plant
  • Honeydew melons
  • Honeysuckle fuchsia
  • Hookera pulchella
  • Horse brier
  • Hoya carnosa ‘exotica’
  • Hoya carnosa ‘krinkle’
  • Hoya carnosa ‘variegata’
  • Hoya ‘Mauna Loa’
  • Hubbard squash
  • Hypocyrta spp.

I

 

  • Ice plant
  • Imbricata sword fern
  • Irish moss
  • Iron cross begonia
  • Iron tree
  • Ivy peperomia
  • Ivy-leaf peperomia


J

 

  • Jackson brier
  • Jacob’s ladder
  • Japanese aralia
  • Japanese holly fern
  • Japanese moss
  • Japanese pittosporum
  • Jasmine
  • Jewel orchid
  • Joseph’s coat
  • Jungle geranium

K

 

  • Kaempferis
  • Kahali ginger
  • Kenilworth ivy
  • Kentia palm
  • Kenya palm
  • Kenya violet
  • Kharoub
  • King nut
  • King of the forest
  • King and queen fern
  • Kuang-yen- pa-hsieh


L

  • Lace flower vine
  • Lace orchid
  • Ladies ear drops
  • Lady lou
  • Lady palm
  • Lagerstroemia indica
  • Lance Pleumele
  • Large
  • Lady Palm
  • Laurel-leaved greenbrier
  • Leather peperomia
  • Leng-fen tu’an
  • Leopard lily
  • Leopard orchid
  • Lesser snapdragon
  • Lily of the valley orchid
  • Linden
  • Lipstick plant
  • Little zebra plant
  • Little fantasy peperomia
  • Living rock cactus
  • Living stones
  • Locust pods
  • Lou-lang-t’ou
  • Luther

M

 

  • Madagascar jasmine
  • Magnolia bush
  • Mahonia aquifolium
  • Malabar gourd
  • Malaysian dracaema
  • Manila palm
  • Mapleleaf begonia
  • Maranta
  • Marbled fingernail
  • Mariposa lily
  • Maroon
  • Mary-bud
  • Measles plant
  • Melons
  • Metallic peperomia
  • Metallic leaf begonia
  • Mexican firecracker
  • Mexican rosettes
  • Mexican snowballs
  • Miniature date palm
  • Minature fish tail
  • Minature maranta
  • Minature marble plant
  • Mistletoe cactus
  • Mockernut hickory
  • Mosaic plant
  • Mosiac vase
  • Moss agate
  • Moss campion
  • Moss fern
  • Moss phlox
  • Moss rose
  • Mossy campion
  • Mother fern
  • Mother spleenwort
  • Mother of pearl
  • Mountain camellia
  • Mountain grape
  • Mulberry bush greenbrier
  • Mulberry tree
  • Musa paradisiaca
  • Muscari armeniacum
  • Muscari spp.
  • Muskmellon

N

 

  • Narrow leafed pleomele
  • Natal plum
  • Neanthe bella palm
  • Nematanthus spp.
  • Neanthebella
  • Neoregelia
  • Nephrolepsis
  • Nerve plant
  • New silver and bronze
  • Night blooming cereus


O

  • Odontoglossum spp.
  • Old man cactus
  • Old world orchid
  • Orange star
  • Oregon grape
  • Ossifragi vase

P

 

  • Paddys wig
  • Painted lady
  • Palm lily
  • Pampus grass
  • Panamiga
  • Pansy orchid
  • Paradise palm
  • Parlor palm
  • Parlor plant
  • Parsley fern
  • Peace begonia
  • Peacock plant
  • Pearl plant
  • Pearly dots
  • Peperomia hederifolia
  • Peperomia peltifolia
  • Peperomia rotundifolia
  • Peperomia sandersii
  • Pepper face
  • Persian violet
  • Pheasant plant
  • Piggy back plant
  • Pigmy date palm
  • Pignut
  • Pignut hickory
  • Pilea microphylla
  • Pilea mucosa
  • Pink Brocade
  • Pink Pearl
  • Pink polka dot plant
  • Pink starlite
  • Pirliteiro
  • Pitaya
  • Plantanus orientalis
  • Plantanus occidentalis
  • Platinum peperomia
  • Platycerium alicicorne
  • Plumbago larpentiae
  • Plush plant
  • Polka dot plant
  • Polystichum falcatum
  • Pony tail
  • Porcelain flower
  • Pot marigold
  • Prairie lily
  • Prairie snowball
  • Prayer plant
  • Prickly bottlebrush
  • Prostrate coleus
  • Purple baby tears
  • Purple passion vine
  • Purple waffle plant
  • Purpleosier willow

Q

 

  • Queen’s spiderwort
  • Queencup
  • Queens spiderwort
  • Queensland arrowroot


R

 

  • Rabbits foot fern
  • Rainbow orchid
  • Red african violet
  • Red berried greenbrier
  • Red edge peperomia
  • Red hawthorne
  • Red palm lily
  • Red veined prayer
  • Reed palm
  • Resurrection lily
  • Rex begonia
  • Rhynchophorum
  • Ribbon plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
  • Roosevelt fern
  • Royal velvet plant
  • Rubber plant, baby
  • Russian olive

S

 

  • Saffron spike zebra
  • Saint Bernards lily
  • Sand lily
  • Sand verbena
  • Satin pellionia
  • Sawbrier
  • Scabious
  • Scarborough lily
  • Scarlet orchid
  • Scarlet sage
  • Sego lily
  • Shagbark hickory
  • Shan ku’ei-lai
  • Shellbark hickory
  • Shiny leaf smilax
  • Shrimp cactus
  • Silver bell
  • Silver berry
  • Silver heart
  • Silver-leaf peperomia
  • Silver nerve plant
  • Silver pink vine
  • Silver star
  • Silver table fern
  • Silver tree anamiga
  • Slender deutzia
  • Small fruited hickory
  • Smilax tamnoides vas
  • Speckled wood lily
  • Spice orchid
  • Spider ivy
  • Spider plant
  • Spotted laurel
  • Squarenut
  • Squirrels foot fern
  • Star jasmine
  • Star lily
  • Star plant
  • Star tulip
  • Star window plant
  • Strawberry
  • Striped blushing
  • Sugar pods
  • Sulfur flower
  • Summer hyacinth
  • Swedish ivy
  • Sweetheart hoya
  • Sweetheart peperomia
  • Sweet william
  • Sword fern

T

 

  • Tahitian bridal veil
  • Tailed orchid
  • Tall feather fern
  • Tall mahonia
  • Teasel gourd
  • Texas sage
  • Thea japonica
  • Thimble cactus
  • Thorn apple (Carateagus oxyacanth)
  • Ti hu-ling
  • Tiger orchid
  • Toad spotted cactus
  • Torch lily
  • Tous-les-mois
  • Trailing peperomia
  • Tree cactus
  • Tree gloxinia
  • Tropical moss
  • True cantalope
  • Tu fu-ling
  • Tulip poplar
  • Tulip tree
  • Turban squash
  • Turf lily

U

 

  • Umbrella plant
  • Urbinia agavoides
  • Usambara violet


V

 

  • Variegated laurel
  • Variegated oval leaf peperomia
  • Variegated wandering jew
  • Variegated wax plant
  • Velvet plant
  • Venus fly trap
  • Verona fern
  • Verona lace fern
  • Vining peperomia
  • Violet slipper gloxinia

W

 

  • Waffle plant
  • Walking anthericum
  • Washington hawthorn
  • Water hickory
  • Watermelon begonia
  • Watermelon peperomia
  • Watermelon pilea
  • Wax plant
  • Wax rosette
  • Weeping bottlebrush
  • Weeping sergeant hemlock
  • Weisdornbluten
  • West indian gherkin
  • Western sword
  • White ginger
  • White edged swedish ivy
  • White heart hickory
  • Whitman fern
  • Wild buckwheat
  • Wild buckwheat
  • Wild hyacinth
  • Wild lantana
  • Wild sarsaparilla
  • Wild strawberry
  • Willow herb
  • Windmill palm
  • Winter cattleya
  • Withered snapdragon
  • Woolflower

Y

 

  • Yellow bloodleaf
  • Yellow-flowered gourd
  • Yerba linda


Z

 

  • Zebra haworthia
  • Zebra plant
  • Zinnia sp.
  • Zucchini squash