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  2. List of plants poisonous to equines - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Veratrum californicum - Wikipedia

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    Veratrum californicum (California corn lily, white or California false hellebore) is an extremely poisonous plant [1] native to western North America, including the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, as far north as Washington and as far south as Durango; depending on latitude, it grows from near sea level to as high as 11,000 feet.

  4. Cascabela thevetia - Wikipedia

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    Cascabela thevetia (synonym Thevetia peruviana) is a poisonous plant native throughout Mexico and in Central America, and cultivated widely as an ornamental. It is a relative of Nerium oleander , giving it a common name yellow oleander .

  5. Cordia lutea - Wikipedia

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    The petals of each flower are fused together to form a trumpet shape, 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) across at the mouth, which has five to eight lobes. Inside the flower there are five to eight stamens . After fertilization , a globular white fruit (a drupe ) forms, 8–12 millimetres (0.3–0.5 in) across, containing from one to four seeds.

  6. Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone - Wikipedia

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    Botanists have ranked the Sierra Nevada alpine zone floral bloom as one of California's foremost wildflower displays, with flowers of fantastic color and abundance. [8] Many of the alpine species are notable for large and showy flowers, which must compete for the pollinators during brief growing seasons. [5]

  7. Medicago lupulina - Wikipedia

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    Black medick has small (2–3 mm) [9] yellow flowers grouped in tight bunches (compact racemes). On larger plants the flower heads may reach 8 mm (5 ⁄ 16 in) or more. [3] The fruit is a single-seeded pod, 1.5 to 3 mm in diameter, [9] that does not open upon maturation, but hardens and turns black when ripe. Each pod contains a single amber ...

  8. Cylindropuntia imbricata - Wikipedia

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    This species blooms in late spring or early summer. The flowers are purple or magenta, rarely rose-pink, about 5 cm (2.0 in) wide. [10] The fruits are yellowish, tubercular like the stems, [10] and shaped something like the frustum of a cone, with a hollow at the wide end where the flower fell off; they are often mistaken for flowers. The plant ...

  9. Eschscholzia - Wikipedia

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    Flowers have four yellow or orange petals, and grow at the end of the stem, either alone or in many-flowered cymes. The petals are wedge-shaped, forming a funnel. The two fused sepals fall off as the flower bud opens.