Candlelight Spells: The Modern Witch's Book of Spellcasting, Feasting, and Healing - Gerina Dunwich 2000

Dangerous Plants
Herbs

Avoid using or experimenting with the plants that are listed in this section. Some of them possess highly potent medical properties and should only be used by experienced professional herbalists. Many of the botanicals included in the following list of dangerous plants are poisonous in part or in whole and can cause serious illness or death if not used properly.

Aconite

Arnica

Baneberry

Belladonna

Bittersweet

Black nightshade

Blue flag

Burning bush

Calabar bean

Calico bush

Camphor

Castor oil plant (seeds)

Celandine

Christmas rose (root)

Cowbane

Daffodils

Deadly nightshade

Dog’s mercury (seeds)

Elkweed

Ergot

Fava bean

Flag lily

Foxglove

Gelsemium

Hellebore

Hemlock

Hemp

Henbane

Holly (seeds)

Honeysuckle (vine and fruits)

Horse balm

Ilex

Impatiens pallida

Indian arrowroot

Indian hemp

Indian tobacco

Inkberry

Jack-in-the-pulpit (root)

Jerusalem cherry

Jimsonweed

Laburnum (seeds)

Laurel (seeds)

Lily of the valley (seeds)

Lobelia

Mandrake

Mayapple (root, leaves, seeds)

Mayflower

Milkweed

Mistletoe (seeds)

Monkshood

Mountain laurel

Nux vomica

Oleander

Ordeal bean

Opium poppy

Pigeonberry

Poinsetta (leaves)

Poison dogwood

Poison flag

Poison hemlock

Poison ivy

Poison oak

Poison sumac

Poke

Pokeberry

Poke root

Pokeweed

Rhubarb leaves

Rosebay

Snow on the mountain

Spingle tree (seeds)

Spotted hemlock

Spurge

Stramonium

Swallow wort

Thorn apple

Tobacco

Wahoo

Wake-robin

Water dropwort

Water hemlock

White bryony

White hellebore

White snakeroot

Winter rose

Wolfsbane

Wood anemone (seeds)

Wormwood

Yellow jasmine

Yew (seeds and berries)