Learn Quickly What You Need to Know
Over 100 plants, shrubs and trees are organized by leaf shape/arrangement to facilitate identification throughout the growing season. Field Guide to Plants Poisonous to Livestock - Western U.S. can be tucked easily into pack or back pocket, carried in your truck or kept handy in the barn. The following are provided for each plant:
- A description (in lay language), e.g., average plant size and leaf and flower appearance, plus other details generally including fruit and seed appearance
- Full page line drawings
- Scientific, common and English family names
- Region and habitat
- Season(s) when consumption is dangerous
- Toxic part(s) of plant
- Special conditions affecting toxicity, e.g., frost or drought stress, drying (as in hay)
- Usual or possible physical/behavioral signs and effects of poisoning
- Basic supportive care and possible treatments
- Animals known or suspected to be susceptible
- Where known, amounts of plant material that may be toxic or lethal
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