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Cat-Safe Gardens!


Treat your feline family to a garden experience that is free of poisonous plants.

Many garden plants are dangerous for cats - some are even deadly! Check the list below to make sure you grow only non-toxic plants...

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Cat-Safe (Non-Toxic) Plants

Achira
Acorn squash
African daisy
African violet
Algaroba
Aluminum plant
Alumroot
Alyssum
American rubber plant
Amur Maple
Anthericum comosum
Antirrhinum multiflorum
Arabian gentian
Areca Palm
Aregelia
Artillery plant
Aspidium falcatum
Aster
Autumn olive

Baby rubber tree plant
Baby tears
Bachelors buttons
Ball fern
Bamboo
Bamboo palm
Bamboo vine
Banana
Banana squash
Barberton Daisy
Beets
Begonia, climbing
Begonia, trailing
Belmore sentry palm
Big shagbark hickory
Big shellbark hickory
Bitter pecan
Bitternut
Black haw
Black hawthorn
Black walnut
Blaspheme vine
Bloodleaf
Blooming sally
Blue bead
Blue daisy
Blue Echeveria
Blue Eyed daisy
Blue-dicks
Bluebottle
Blunt leaf peperomia
Blushing bromeliad
Bold sword fern
Boston fern
Bottle Palm
Bottlebrush
Brazilian orchid
Bride's bonnet
Bristly greenbrier
Brodiaea pulchella
Broom hickory
Bullbrier
Bur gourd
Burro's tail
Buttercup squash
Butterfly ginger
Butterfly iris
Butterfly squash
Buzzy Lizzie

Caeroba
Calthea lancifolia
Calathea insignis
California pitcher plant
Callistemon bradyandrus
Callistemon citrinus
Callistemon viminalis
Calochortus nuttalli
Camellia
Canada hemlock
Canary date palm
Candle plant
Candycorn plant
Cane Palm
Canna lily
Cantebury-bell
Cape marigold
Cape primrose
Carob
Carob Tree
Caroba
Carobinha
Carolina hemlock
Carrion flower
Carrot fern
Carrot flower
Casaba melon
Cast Iron plant
Cat brier
Cat ear
Cattleya labiata
Celosia globosa
Celosia plumosa
Celosia spicata
Chamaedorea
Chaparral
Chestnut
Chicken-gizzard
Chickens and hens
Chin-lao-shu
China aster
China root
Chinese plumbago
Chlorophytum
Chlorophytum bichetii
Chocolate soldier plant
Christmas cactus
Christmas dagger fern
Christmas orchid
Christmas palm
Cinnamon
Cinquefoil
Cirrhopetalum
Clearweed
Cliff brake fern
Club moss
Cocks comb
Cocktail orchid
Collinia elegans
Common camellia
Common catbrier
Common garden canna
Common greenbrier
Common snapdragon
Common staghorn fern
Confederate jasmine
Coolwort
Copper rose
Copperlead
Coral bells
Coreopsis
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
Cushion moss
Cushon aloe
Cyrtudeira
Dainty rabbits-foot fern
Dallas fern
Dancing doll orchid
Desert trumpet
Dianthus
Dichelostemma
Dichorisandra reginae
Dinteranthus vanzylii
Duffii fern
Duffy fern
Dwarf date palm Dwarf feather palm
Dwarf palm
Dwarf rose-stripe star
Dwarf royal palm
Dwarf whitman fern

Earth star
Easter cattleya
Easter daisy
Easter lily cactus
Easter orchid
Eastern star
Edible banana
Elephant-Ear Begonia
Emerald ripple peperomia
English hawthorn
Episcia

Fairy fountain
False aralia
Fan tufted palm
Feather palm
Fiery reed orchid
Fig leaf gourd
Figleaf palm
Fingernail plant
Fire weed
Fish tail fern
Flame african violet
Flame of the woods
Flamingo Plant
Florida butterfly orchid
Fluffy ruffles
Forster sentry palm
Fortunes palm
Freckle face
Friendship plant

Garden marigold
Garden snapdragon
Gerber daisy
German violet
Gherkins
Ghost leafless orchid
Ghost plant
Giant aster
Giant holly fern
Giant touch-me-not
Giant white inch plant
Gibasis geniculata
Globe thistle
Gloxinia
Gold bloom
Gold-fish plant
Golden bells
Golden butterfly palm
Golden lace orchid
Golden shower orchid
Good luck palm
Grape hyacinth
Grape Ivy
Great willow herb
Green ripple peperomia
Greenbrier

Hagbrier
Hardy baby tears
Hardy gloxinia
Hare fern
Haworthia
Haws
Haws apple
Hawthorn
Hedgehog gourd
Hellfetter
Hemlock tree
Hen and chickens fern
Hens and chickens
Hindu rope plant
Holligold
Holly fern
Hollyhock
Honey locust
Honey plant
Honeydew melons
Honeysuckle fuchsia
Hookera pulchella
Hubbard squash
Hypocyrta spp.

Ice plant
Impatience, Impatiens
Irish moss
Iron cross begonia
Iron tree
Ivy peperomia

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

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

Lace flower vine
Lace orchid
Ladies ear drops
Lady lou
Lady palm
Lady Slipper
Lagerstroemia indica
Lance Pleomele
Laurel-leaved greenbrier
Leather peperomia
Leopard orchid
Lesser snapdragon
Lily of the Valley Orchid
Linden
Lipstick plant
Little fantasy peperomia
Little zebra plant
Living rock cactus
Living stones
Locust pods

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

Nasturtium
Natal plum
Neanthe bella palm
Neanthe bella palm
Nematanthus
Neoregelia
Nerve plant
Night blooming cereus

Old man cactus
Old world orchid
Orange star
Oregon grape
Ossifragi vase

Paddys wig
Painted lady
Pampus grass
Panamiga
Pansy orchid
Paradise palm
Parlor palm
Parsley fern
Patient Lucy
Patient plant
Peace begonia
Peacock plant
Pearl plant
Pearly dots
Peperomia hederifolia
Peperomia peltfolia
Peperomia rotundifolia
Peperomia sandersii
Pepper face
Persian violet
Petunias
Pheasant plant
Piggy back plant
Pignut hickory
Pilea microphylla
Pilea mucosa
Pincushion flower
Pink Brocade
Pink Pearl
Pink Splash
Pink starlite
Pirliteiro
Pitaya
Plantanus occidentalis
Platinum peperomia
Platycerium alicicorne
Plumbago larpentiae
Plush plant
Poison Ivy
Poison Oak
Poison Sumac
Polka dot plant
Polystichum falcatum
Pony tail
Porcelain flower
Pot marigold
Prairie lily
Prairie snowball
Prayer plant
Prickly bottlebrush
Prostrate coleus
Purple velvet plant
Purple waffle plant

Queencup
Queens spiderwort
Queensland arrowroot

Rabbits foot fern
Rainbow orchid
Red african violet
Red berried greenbrier
Red edge peperomia
Red hawthorne
Red palm lily
Red veined prayer plant
Reed palm
Resurrection lily
Rex begonia
Rhynchophorum
Ribbon plant
Roosevelt fern
Rose
Russian olive

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
Shrimp cactus
Silver bell
Silver heart
Silver pink vine
Silver star
Silver table fern
Silver tree anamiga
Slender deutzia
Small fruited hickory
Smilax tamnoides vas hispida
Snapdragon
Speckled wood lily
Spice orchid
Spider flower
Spider ivy
Spider plant
Star jasmine
Star lily
Star plant
Strawberry
Striped blushing
Sugar pods
Sulfur flower
Summer hyacinth
Sunflower
Swamp sunflower
Swedish ivy
Sweetheart hoya
Sword fern

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

Umbrella plant
Urbinia agavoides
Usambara violet

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

Waffle plant
Walking anthericum
Wandering Jew
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 edged swedish ivy
White ginger
White heart hickory
Whitman fern
Wild buckwheat
Wild lantana
Wild sarsaparilla
Wild strawberry
Wild hyacinth
Willow herb
Windmill palm
Winter cattleya
Withered snapdragon
Woolflower

Yellow-flowered gourd
Yellow bloodleaf
Yellow palm
Yerba linda

Zebra haworthia
Zebra plant
Zinnia
Zucchini squash





































































This list was compiled from the ASPCA's Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants Database, which also provides lists of poison and safe plants for dogs and horses, too.
Their database is searchable, provides photos of the plants, and other names plants might be called. Check it out!!



Check all your house plants, too!


Keep poisonous plants up high - on top of the fridge,
as hanging plants, on shelves cats can't jump up on!

Be safe!






An Autumn alternative to Mums, the beautiful Aster is non-toxic!
Chrysanthemum = Poisonous to dogs and cat!

Aster = Safe Fall outdoor plant






Animal Poison Control Center

From the ASPCA
Call (888) 426-4435
24 hours a day, 365 days a year

for any animal poison-related emergency.
if you think that your pet may have ingested a potentially poisonous substance.
a $65 consultation fee may be applied to your credit card.


ASPCA's Poison Control website






Learn more...

Plants Potentially Poisonous to Pets from the Humane Society of the United States

Ways To Cat-Proof Your Home from Cornell Feline Health Center

Enjoy Chronicle of the Sunflowers I Planted As Seeds











created especially for my boy, Reggie "the lawn mower" Stahlman,
who simply cannot resist munching on plants. any plant, anytime.

so keep them safe!





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