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poppenga review
showing us slides of the plants. 
i'm not 
writing anything down unless it is new info or something i particularly 
want to remember.

monks hood - acanitum. purple flower, hooded. leaf has 
5 serrated lobes.

abrus pecatorius (??sp??) red peas in pods with black 
marks on them. compound leaves, viny characteristic, flower is 
white/pink, whole spike of them. 
rosary bead plant?


various varieties 
of larkspur
flower is key - prominent spur
leaf similar to monks hood


morning glory? no. jimson weed- prominent tubular white flower (that 
looks like morning glory to me!). prickly seed pod - "thorn apple" and 
oaky sorts of leaves. seed pod often at a V of stems.
in the pod are many 
small black seeds.

jimson weed may look like the another plant which has 
larger, heart shaped leaves with irregular margins and clusters of burrs 
- this plant has a lot more seed pods. this is cocklebur, xanthium. not 
so toxic as a big plant. newly germinated sprouts are more toxic. 
differentiate from jimson weed b/c many more pods on this plant.


dutchman's britches - pair of white pants, upside down, yellow waistband.


wild onion is obvious.

tightly packed flower, green, with red root, 
rough leaves - this is red root pigweed. there is also spiny pigweed with 
spines on stem. this late late season post - flower thing looks like 
mutant pipe cleaner. small, rough surfaced leaves, tightly packed 
terminal cluster of flowers

this plant looks a little like rhododendron 
but has milky sap - milkweed. broad leaves, prominent midvein, clusters 
of starlike flowers that are very distinct looking.  - it's a 5 
structured flower with two portions, one pointing up and one pointing 
down. also in fall, big green seedpods

western plant- astragalus - 
locust like leaf - fairly characteristic. this has pink tubular flowers. 
comes in other colors. 
another genus - oxytropis - looks like 
astragalus. can't distinguish b/w them.



sweet pea - pea like flowers 
with climbing tendrils. 
remember based on the fact that it has these 
small stemmy structures the other plants on the list do not have. vine 
like. 

ergot - small grain like barley,rye - seed heads are displaced by 
some fungus which forms ergot bodies in there, little black things. cause 
ergotism - vasoconstriction, other things.

deadly nightshade - black 
berries when ripe. almost marble sized. this is atropa, belladonna, 
commonly called deadly nightshade but is not solanum sp.
note part of 
flower tightly adherent to large berry. leaves are simple and thick.


black nightshade - solanum nigrum - berries do not have adherent green 
vegetative part. berries smaller, i think. leaves - at base of leaves are 
small leaf structures see in solanum spp. tiny whitish/yellow flowers. 


another nightshade - purple flower. has small leaves at base of leaf. 
purple flower, red berry - this is bittersweet nightshade. 
much vinier 
plant than black nightshade.

the one we talked about - doesn't have the 
small ancillary leaves - but has prominent spines on stem, is big, 
irregular leaf edge, white flower, rough leaf...this is horse nettle, 
another solanum spp. white flowers turn into yellow/brown later in fall.


black locust also has spines.

potato - looks like potato. solanum 
tuberosum. 
tomato plant - contains same toxin as other nightshades. 


dumbcane - large, leathery, variegated leaves, - dieffenbachia

philodendron - heart shaped leaves, split leaves. 

calladium? white 
spots on leaf. more delicate than philodendron. also can be pink/green or 
white/green. prominent veins.

foxglove/digitalis - tubular flowers with 
spots in them. 

iris - pretty easy.

pointsettia, not poisonous, on all 
poisonous plant lists. is in euphorbia genus. some euphorbia esp out west 
are poisonous, this isn't one of them. 

euphorbia - snow on the mountain 
- white things with green stripe down middle, small. 

lily of the vally 
- distinctive flowers.

high planes pasture with large stands of veratrum 
californium. veratrum viridae is seen here. leaves have prominent veins. 
large. has a stem in middle when plant opens, with flowers in terminal 
upright cluster.  ID mainly on leaves.


poison hemlock =- large plant. 
purple splotches on stem. - know it is poison or water hemlock, both have 
purple on stem. poison hemlock leaf is like parsley. water hemlock leaf 
isn't like that. water hemlock leaves are more distinct, less lacy. 
serrated, elongated leaflets. also water hemlock has solid root then 
hollow over it; multiple chambers in solid base where toxin accumulates.



similar leaf to water hemlock - cannabis sativa. the serrated leaves here 
come from common point, unlike water hemlock leaves. 

white snakeroot - 
may be confused with hemlocks.  different leaves, smaller plant. 
different flowers - still clustered but not umbels. also each flower 
itself is a tiny cluster of white flowers, more button like - can see 
tiny white structures coming out flower edges. leaves are more tear 
shaped, nondescript, some serrations, prominent veins. 

yellow cone and 
ray flowers - synecio (sp?) - this is s.jacobia.
daisy like.

lupinus -  
upright terminal cluster of flowers with leaves that are palmate, 

similar to mayapple except skinner leaflets coming out of central point. 


superficially similar leaf is seen on another plant, with thorny seed 
capsules. leaflets aren't separated, though. seeds in thorny pod - 
variegated brown/white - castor bean.

tall plant, with small terminal 
clusters of flowers, tiny flowers making up the long cluster - turn into 
green berries, then black berries- this is pokeweed, pokeberry. 

go over 
diff b/w sensitive and bracken ferns!

thick fleshy cactus type, 
succulent leaves. soluble calcium oxalate in this plant.
didn't catch 
name.

another oxalate containing plant - rhubarb - huge leaves, red 
stem.


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