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Mountain laurel is poisonous to several animals, including horses, [24] goats, cattle, deer, [25] monkeys, and humans, [26] due to grayanotoxin [27] and arbutin. [28] The green parts of the plant, flowers , twigs, and pollen are all toxic, [ 26 ] including food products made from them, such as toxic honey that may produce neurotoxic and ...
Other names for Kalmia, particularly Kalmia angustifolia, are sheep-laurel, lamb-kill, calf-kill, kill-kid, and sheep-poison, [3] which may be written with or without the hyphen. (See species list below.) "Kid" here refers to a young goat , not a human child, but the foliage and twigs are toxic to humans as well.
Kalmia polifolia, previously known as Kalmia glauca [1] and commonly called bog laurel, swamp laurel, [2] or pale laurel, is a perennial [3] evergreen shrub of cold acidic bogs, in the family Ericaceae. It is native to north-eastern North America, from Newfoundland to Hudson Bay southwards.
The Evergreen State is full of beautiful, delicious wild plants. It’s also full of toxic lookalikes.
The common cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium), a native of North America, can be poisonous to livestock, including horses, cattle, and sheep. Some domestic animals will avoid consuming the plant if other forage is present, but less discriminating animals, such as pigs, will consume the plants and then sicken and die.
And Alaska Wildlife shared this interesting fact, "Mountain goats are one of the least-studied large mammal species in North America. They only started to be written about in scientific literature ...
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]
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife monitors a portion of the state’s mountain goat populations, and estimates of the goats regularly surveyed fell from 1,537 in 2015 to 917 in 2022 ...