Tasty Garden Treats

Looking for a few plants that ARE "safe" for your kitty to nibble?  There are plenty that are toxic... and deadly.  Here's a few lists of the plants that are okay for your cat to munch.  NOTE:  Any plant has the potential to give your kitty an upset stomach... these are plants that do not cause major symptoms and do not require treatment.  Some animals could display an allergic reaction to any substance, please observe and watch your pet accordingly when offering it any new treat.

  • Achira
  • Achyranthes verschaffelti
  • Acorn squash
  • Adaiantum fern
  • African violet
  • Airplane plant
  • Algaroba
  • Aloe Vera
  • Aluminum plant
  • Alumroot
  • American rubber plant
  • Anthericum comosum
  • Antirrhinum multiflorum
  • Apple Leaf Croton
  • Arabian gentian
  • Aregelia
  • Artillery plant
  • Asparagus fern
  • Asparagus
  • Aspidium falcatum
  • Aubepine
  • Autumn olive
  • Baby tears
  • Baby rubber tree plant
  • Bachelors buttons
  • Ball fern
  • Bamboo palm
  • Bamboo vine
  • Bamboo
  • Banana
  • Banana squash
  • Begonia species
  • Belmore sentry palm
  • Big shellbark hickory
  • Begonia
  • Bitter pecan
  • Bitternut
  • Black hawthorn
  • Black haw
  • Blaspheme vine
  • Bloodleaf
  • Blooming sally
  • Blue bead
  • Blue echeveria
  • Blue-dicks
  • Blue-eyed daisy
  • Blue daisy
  • Bluebottle
  • Blunt leaf peperomia
  • Blushing bromeliad
  • Bold sword fern
  • Boston fern
  • Bottle Palm
  • Bottlebrush
  • Brazilian orchid
  • Bride's bonnet
  • Bristly greenbrier
  • Brodiaea pulchella
  • Broom hickory
  • Bullbrier
  • Bur gourd
  • Burn plant
  • Burro's tail
  • Buttercup squash
  • Butterfly ginger
  • Butterfly squash
  • Butterfly iris
  • Butterfly tulip
  • Butterfly orchid
  • Button fern
  • Caeroba
  • Calathea insignis
  • California pitcher plant
  • Callistemon citrinus
  • Callistemon bradyandrus
  • Callistemon viminalis
  • Calochortus nuttalli
  • Calthea lancifolia
  • Camellia
  • Canada hemlock
  • Canary date palm
  • Candle plant
  • Candycorn plant
  • Canna lily
  • Cantebury-bell
  • Cape jasmine
  • Cape primrose
  • Carob tree
  • Carob
  • Caroba
  • Carobinha
  • Carolina hemlock
  • Carrion flower
  • Carrot fern
  • Carrot flower
  • Casaba melon
  • Cast Iron plant
  • Cat ear
  • Cat brier
  • Cattleya labiata
  • Celosia plumosa
  • Celosia spicata
  • Celosia globosa
  • Chamaedorean humilis
  • Chaparral snapdragon
  • Chestnut
  • Chicken-gizzard plant
  • Chickens and hens
  • Chin-lao-shu
  • China root
  • China aster
  • Chinese plumbago
  • Chlorophytum
  • Chlorophytum bichetii
  • Chocolate soldier plant
  • Christmas dagger fern
  • Christmas palm
  • Christmas orchid
  • Cinnamon jasmine
  • Cinquefoil
  • Cirrhopetalum
  • Cissus
  • Clearweed
  • Cliff brake fern
  • Club moss
  • Cocks comb
  • Cocktail orchid
  • Collinia elegans
  • Color-band 
  • Cryptanthus
  • Columnar cactus
  • Common garden canna
  • Common snapdragon
  • Common camellia
  • Common catbrier
  • Common staghorn fern
  • Common greenbrier
  • Confederate jasmine
  • Coolwort
  • Copper rose
  • Copperlead
  • Coral berry
  • Coral ardisia
  • Coral bells
  • Cornflower
  • Crape myrtle
  • Crataegus phaenopyrum
  • Crataegus spp.
  • Creeping charlie
  • Creeping pilea
  • Creeping rubus
  • Creeping gloxinia
  • Creeping zinnia
  • Creeping mahonia
  • Crepe myrtle
  • Crimson bottlebush
  • Crimson cup
  • Crisped feather fern
  • Crossandra
  • Cucumber
  • Cushion moss
  • Cushon aloe
  • Cyclamen (entire genus)
  • Cyrtudeira reptans
  • Dainty
  • Dainty rabbits-foot fern
  • Dallas fern
  • Dancing doll orchid
  • Davallia bullata mariessi
  • Davallia trichomanoides
  • Desert trumpet
  • Dichelostemma
  • Dichorisandra reginae
  • Dinteranthus vanzylii
  • Duffii fern
  • Duffy fern
  • Dwarf feather fern
  • Dwarf Rose-Stripe Star
  • Dwarf palm
  • Dwarf royal palm
  • Dwarf date palm
  • Dwarf whitman fern
  • Earth star
  • Easter cattleya
  • Easter daisy
  • Easter orchid
  • Easter lily cactus
  • Edible banana
  • Elephant-Ear Begonia
  • Emerald ripple peperomia
  • English hawthorn
  • Epidendrum ibaguense
  • Epidendrum
  • Epidendrum atropurpeum
  • Episcia spp.
  • Fairy fountain
  • False aralia
  • Fan tufted palm
  • Feather fern
  • Feathered amaranth
  • Fiery reed orchid
  • Fig leaf gourd
  • Figleaf palm
  • Fingernail plant
  • Fire weed
  • Fish tail fern
  • Flame of the woods
  • Flame african violet
  • Flame violet
  • Florida butter-fly orchid
  • Fluffy ruffles
  • Forster sentry palm
  • Fortunes palm
  • Freckle face
  • Friendship plant
  • Frosty
  • Garden snapdragon
  • Garden marigold
  • Geranium (common)
  • German violet
  • Gherkins
  • Ghost plant
  • Ghost leafless orchid
  • Giant white inch plant
  • Giant holly fern
  • Giant aster
  • Gibasis geniculata
  • Globe thistle
  • Gloxinia
  • Gold bloom
  • Gold-fish plant
  • Golden shower orchid
  • Golden lace orchid
  • Golden aster
  • Golden bells
  • Good luck palm
  • Grape hyacinth
  • Grape Ivy
  • Great willow herb
  • Green ripple peperomia
  • Greenbrier
  • Hagbrier
  • Hardy gloxinia
  • Hardy baby tears
  • Haworthia
  • Haws apple
  • Haws
  • Hawthorn
  • Hedgehog gourd
  • Hellfetter
  • Hemlock tree
  • Hen and chickens fern
  • Hens and chickens
  • Hickory
  • Hindu rope plant
  • Holligold
  • Holly fern
  • Hollyhock
  • Honey plant
  • Honey locust
  • Honeydew melons
  • Honeysuckle fuchsia
  • Hookera pulchella
  • Horse brier
  • Hoya 'Mauna Loa'
  • Hoya carnosa 'exotica'
  • Hoya carnosa 'krinkle'
  • Hoya carnosa 'variegata'
  • Hubbard squash
  • Hypoestes
  • Hypocyrta spp.
  • Ice plant
  • Imbricata sword fern
  • Impatiens
  • Irish moss
  • Iron cross begonia
  • Iron tree
  • Ivy-leaf peperomia
  • Ivy peperomia
  • Jackson brier
  • Jacob's ladder
  • Japanese aralia
  • Japanese pittosporum
  • Japanese moss
  • Japanese holly fern
  • Jasmine
  • Jewel orchid
  • Joseph's coat
  • Jungle geranium
  • Kaempferis
  • Kahali ginger
  • Kenilworth ivy
  • Kentia palm
  • Kenya palm
  • Kenya violet
  • Kharoub
  • King and queen fern
  • King of the forest
  • King nut
  • Kuang-yen- pa-hsieh
  • Lace flower vine
  • Lace orchid
  • Ladies ear drops
  • Lady lou
  • Lady palm
  • Lagerstroemia indica
  • Lance Pleumele
  • Large Lady Palm
  • Laurel-leaved greenbrier
  • Mulberry tree
  • Leather peperomia
  • Leng-fen tu'an
  • Leopard orchid
  • Leopard lily
  • Lesser snapdragon
  • Lily of the valley orchid
  • Linden
  • Lipstick plant
  • Lipstick vine
  • Little fantasy peperomia
  • Little zebra plant
  • Living rock cactus
  • Living stones
  • Locust pods
  • Lou-lang-t'ou
  • Luther
  • Madagascar jasmine
  • Magnolia bush
  • Mahonia aquifolium
  • Maidenhair fern
  • Malabar gourd
  • Malaysian dracaema
  • Manila palm
  • Mapleleaf begonia
  • Maranta
  • Marbled fingernail
  • Mariposa lily
  • Maroon
  • Mary-bud
  • Measles plant
  • Melons
  • Metallic peperomia
  • Metallic leaf begonia
  • Mexican firecracker
  • Mexican snowballs
  • Mexican rosettes
  • Minature maranta
  • Minature marble plant
  • Minature fish tail
  • Miniature date palm
  • Miniature roses
  • Mistletoe cactus
  • Mockernut hickory
  • Moses in the boat
  • Mosaic plant
  • Mosiac vase
  • Moss phlox
  • Moss agate
  • Moss rose
  • Moss campion
  • Moss fern
  • Mossy campion
  • Mother fern
  • Mother of pearl plant
  • Mother spleenwort
  • Mountain camellia
  • Mountain grape
  • Mulberry bush
  • Musa paradisiaca
  • Muscari spp.
  • Muscari armeniacum
  • Muskmellon
  • Narrow leafed pleomele
  • Natal plum
  • Neanthe bella palm
  • Neanthebella
  • Nematanthus spp.
  • Neoregelia
  • Nephrolepis fern
  • Nerve plant
  • New silver and bronze
  • Night blooming cereus
  • Odontoglossum spp.
  • Old world orchid
  • Old man cactus
  • Orange star
  • Oregon grape
  • Ossifragi vase
  • Paddys wig
  • Painted lady
  • Palm lily
  • Pampus grass
  • Panamiga
  • Pansy orchid
  • Paradise palm
  • Parlor plant
  • Parlor palm
  • Parsley fern
  • Patience plant
  • Peace begonia
  • Peacock plant
  • Pearl plant
  • Pearly dots
  • Pelargonium
  • Peperomia peltifolia
  • Peperomia rotundifolia
  • Peperomia fosteri
  • Peperomia sandersii
  • Peperomia hederifolia
  • Pepper face
  • Persian violet
  • Pheasant plant
  • Piggy back plant
  • Pigmy date palm
  • Pignut hickory
  • Pignut
  • Pilea microphylla
  • Pilea mucosa
  • Pink polka dot plant
  • Pink Pearl
  • Pink starlite
  • Pink Brocade
  • Pirliteiro
  • Pitaya
  • Plantanus occidentalis
  • Plantanus orientalis
  • Platinum peperomia
  • Platycerium alicicorne
  • Plumbago larpentiae
  • Plush plant
  • Polka dot plant
  • Polystichum falcatum
  • Pony tail
  • Porcelain flower
  • Pot marigold
  • Prairie snowball
  • Prairie lily
  • Prayer plant
  • Prickly bottlebrush
  • Prostrate coleus
  • Pteris fern
  • Purple waffle plant
  • Purple baby tears
  • Purple passion vine
  • Purpleosier willow
  • Queen's spiderwort
  • Queencup
  • Queens spiderwort
  • Queensland arrowroot
  • Rabbits foot fern
  • Rainbow orchid
  • Red african violet
  • red veined prayer plant
  • red berried greenbrier
  • red hawthorne
  • red palm lily
  • red edge peperomia
  • reed palm
  • resurrection lily
  • rex begonia
  • rhynchophorum
  • Ribbon plant
  • Roosevelt fern
  • Royal velvet plant
  • Rubber plant, baby
  • Russian olive
  • Saffron
  •  spike zebra
  • Saint Bernards lily
  • Saintpaulia
  • Sand lily
  • Sand verbena
  • Satin pellionia
  • Sawbrier
  • Scabious
  • Scarborough lily
  • Scarlet orchid
  • Scarlet sage
  • Sego lily
  • Shagbark hickory
  • Shan ku'ei-lai
  • Shellbark hickory
  • Shiny leaf smilax
  • Shrimp cactus
  • Silver nerve plant
  • Silver table fern
  • Silver pink vine
  • Silver bell
  • Silver heart
  • Silver star
  • Silver berry
  • Silver-leaf peperomia
  • Silver tree anamiga
  • Sinningia
  • Slender deutzia
  • Small fruited hickory
  • Smilax tamnoides vas hispida
  • Speckled wood lily
  • Spice orchid
  • Spider ivy
  • Spider plant
  • Spotted laurel
  • Squarenut
  • Squirrels foot fern
  • Star jasmine
  • Star plant
  • Star tulip
  • Star window plant
  • Strawberry
  • Striped blushing
  • Sugar pods
  • Sulfur flower
  • Summer hyacinth
  • Swedish ivy
  • Sweet william
  • Sweetheart peperomia
  • Sweetheart hoya
  • Sword fern
  • Tahitian bridal veil
  • Tailed orchid
  • Tall feather fern
  • Tall mahonia
  • Teasel gourd
  • Texas sage
  • Thea japonica
  • Thimble cactus
  • Thorn apple
  • Ti hu-ling
  • Tiger orchid
  • Toad spotted cactus
  • Torch lily
  • Tous-les-mois
  • Trailing peperomia
  • Tree cactus
  • Tree gloxinia
  • Tropical moss
  • True cantalope
  • Tu fu-ling
  • Tulips
  • Tulip poplar
  • Tulip tree
  • Turban squash
  • Turf lily
  • Umbrella plant
  • Urbinia agavoides
  • Usambara violet
  • Variegated philodendron 
  • leaf peperomia
  • Variegated wax plant
  • Variegated wandering jew
  • Variegated oval leaf peperomia
  • Variegated laurel
  • Velvet plant
  • Venus fly trap
  • Verona fern
  • Verona lace fern
  • Victorian Table fern
  • Vining peperomia
  • Violet slipper gloxinia
  • Waffle plant
  • Walking anthericum
  • Wandering jew
  • Washington hawthorn
  • Water hickory
  • Watermelon peperomia
  • Watermelon begonia
  • Watermelon pilea
  • Wax plant
  • Wax rosette
  • Weeping sergeant hemlock
  • Weeping bottlebrush
  • Weisdornbluten
  • West indian gherkin
  • Western sword
  • White edged swedish ivy
  • White heart hickory
  • White ginger
  • Whitman fern
  • Wild buckwheat
  • Wild buckwheat
  • Wild sarsaparilla
  • Wild lantana
  • Wild strawberry
  • Wild hyacinth
  • Willow herb
  • Windmill palm
  • Winter cattleya
  • Withered snapdragon
  • Woolflower
  • Yellow-flowered gourd
  • Yellow bloodleaf
  • Yerba linda
  • Zebra haworthia
  • Zebra plant
  • Zebrina
  • Zinnia sp.
  • Zucchini squash

Please visit the links below to learn more about toxic plants and your pet.

Basic Health Care - Scroll down quite a bit until you find the Non-Poisonous Plants section.

Cat Fanciers Association - Quite a long list of Non-Toxic plants, originally listed by the ASPCA National Animal Poison Control Center

This list has been compiled from various Animal Husbandry sites (see those listed above) across the web.  Natureworks does not guarantee that your pet could not have a reaction (allergic or otherwise), and will not be held responsible for any claims made from the use of this information.  This list has been put together to be used in accordance with the other sites to educate the public and the pet owner.  Thank you.

(These articles are for personal use only and may not be reproduced for personal or commercial use
without permission from the author, Natureworks or other authorized party.)

 
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