What are the plants that could harm alpacas if they ate them?
This should NOT be considered an all-inclusive list. However the plants listed below represent those that have been published by Dr. Murray Fowler, DVM as being potentially harmful to camelids and specifically alpacas. You should contact your own veterinarian if you have any doubts about plants that your alpacas might come into contact with. The only published reports of definitive plant poisoning of camelids in North America involve oleander (Nerium oleander) and the prognosis is not good with treatments difficult. Even small amounts, if ingested, are usually fatal. However, all ornamental plants are potentially hazardous. Other plants that MAY adversely affect camelids include the following: Arrowgrass (Triglochin maritina), False hellebore, corn lily (Veratrum californicum), Death camas, sandcorn (Zigadenus sp.), Nightshade (Solanum sp.), Jimsomweed, thornapple (Datura metaloides), Chokecherry, wild cherry (Pranus virginiana), Western sneezeweed (Helenium hoopesii), Labrador tea (Le
