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Hungry or thirsty horses are more likely to eat poisonous plants, as are those pastured on overgrazed lands. [5] Animals with mineral deficiencies due to poor diets will sometimes seek out poisonous plants. [6] Poisonous plants are more of a danger to livestock after wildfires, as they often regrow more quickly. [7]
Delphinium geyeri has many common names related to its habitat, poisonous character, or its scientific name. It is called "foothills larkspur" in Colorado. [ 12 ] However, it also grows on the plains and so it is also sometimes called "plains larkspur", [ 13 ] though this name common name is shared with the white-flowered Delphinium ...
Poinsettia is similarly only mildly toxic to cats, dogs, and horses, [120] and very rarely necessitates veterinary treatment. [121] Excoecaria agallocha: milky mangrove, blind-your-eye mangrove, river poison tree Euphorbiaceae: Contact with latex can cause skin irritation and blistering; eye contact can cause temporary blindness. [citation needed]
All members of the genus Delphinium are toxic to humans and livestock. [2] The common name larkspur is shared between perennial Delphinium species and annual species of the genus Consolida. [3] Molecular data show that Consolida, as well as another segregate genus, Aconitella, are both embedded in Delphinium. [4]
Delphinium trolliifolium is a species of larkspur known by the common names poison delphinium, cow poison, and Columbian larkspur. It is native to Washington, Oregon, and northern California. [1] This wildflower reaches one half to just over one meter in height. It has large, shiny, deeply lobed leaves.
If this was a "plants poisonous to mammals" I could see the comparison, or even if it was a "plants poisonous to livestock" I could see a comparison between horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc., but I'm just not seeing horses vs. humans in an article specifically about horses.
The Cuyamaca larkspur (ssp. cuyamacae) is native to the Peninsular Ranges, occurring near Cuyamaca Lake and possibly Palomar Mountain in San Diego County. [1] The ssp. hesperium is native to the North Coast Ranges. [2] The pale-flowered western larkspur (ssp. pallescens), which has white, pink, or light blue sepals, occurs in the Coast Ranges. [3]
Delphinium nudicaule, known by the common names canyon larkspur, red larkspur, orange larkspur, and canyon delphinium, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is native to low-elevation canyons and slopes, foothills, and mountain ranges of California, US, from the Sierra Nevada to the California Coast ...