Child Safety
Safe House and Garden Plants and Trees
A comprehensive list
The plants and trees listed here are considered nontoxic or non-poisonous. Plants that are commonly known by more than one name have been listed under each name. Harmful side effects from eating or handling these plants are unlikely; however, any plant may cause an unexpected reaction in sensitive persons.
Abelia Abyssinian Sword Lily African Daisy African Palm African Violet Air Plant Aluminum Plant Aralia Araucaria Asparagus Fern Aspidistra Aster Baby’s Tears or Baby’s Breath Bachelor Buttons Bamboo Palm Begonia Birds’ Nest Fern Blood Leaf Plant Boston Ferns Bougainvillea Bromeliads Burro’s Tail California Holly California Poppy Camellia Cast Iron Plant Christmas Cactus Coleus Corn Plant |
Crab Apples Creeping Charlie Creeping Jennie Croton - House Variety Dahlia Daisies Dandelion Day Lily Dogwood Donkey Tail Dracaena or Dragon Tree Easter Lily Echeveria Eugenia Gardenia Geranium Grape Ivy Hedge Apples Hens and Chicks Honeysuckle Hoya Jade Plant Kalanchoe Lily (Day, Easter, Tiger) Lipstick Plant Lysima Magnolia Maidenhair Fern Marigold |
Monkey Plant Monkey Puzzle Norfolk Island Pine Pansy Parlor and Paradise Palm Peperomia Petunia Piggyback Plant Prayer Plant Purple Passion Pyracantha Rose Rubber Plant Sansevieria Schefflera Sensitive Plant Sentry Palm Silver Dollar Plant Spider Plant Swedish Ivy Umbrella Violets Wandering Jew Wax Plant Weeping Fig Weeping Willow Wild Onion Zebra Plant |