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very poisonous, but not as common.
Rhodendron contains much the same poison as mountain laurel. However, it is not as palatable and causes less trouble.
The highly prized box and the shrubby yews contain poisons’in their leaves and stems. The evergreen periwinkle, commonly used for ground cover, is poisonous and likely to cause abortion in animals. So, boxwood, yews and periwinkle of old homesteads which have been turned into pasture areas should be removed and sold to prevent cattle from browsing them.
Caper’s spurge, or sassy jack, has become naturalized in parts of Southwest Virginia. Sheep, particularly, eat it readily. The leaves are narrow, pointed, and dark green, with a white line running the length through the center.
If you see sassy jack—pull it up and destroy it. The milky juice of the plant has an irritating substance which affects the lining of the mouth and the digestive tract, causing vomiting, intense diarrhea, and frequently death. It is said that the poison can be secreted into milk of cows which eat the plant, and that the milk then affects man.
The cockleburr is a menace in late spring and early summer when the seed are germinating. The seed, and the seedlings are especially poisonous to the rooting pig. Although other animals are subject, by the time seedlings are tall enough to be grazed they have lost much of their poison.
Young plants of poison hemlock. or its close relative, water hemlock, normally grow in wet soil along streams, ditch banks, or seepage areas of open pastures and fields, and are a particifTifr hazard jn the summer, even when good grass is available.
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