Snakeroot might look like baby's breath, but this snake repellent plant actually is toxic to many animals and poses a real danger to your pets.

What is white snakeroot, and is it poisonous? Find out all you need to know about this plant in our guide.

Beneath my redbud, awash in spring with pink flowers, arises a new set of blooms. White ones, in late summer. These are the flowers of white snakeroot, a plant that reaches 3 to 4 feet tall, up to ...

It's White Snakeroot - Ageratina altissima, a member of the Aster family - a native plant once thought to cure snakebites, but in fact, it's toxic!

White snakeroot flowers in September and October. The blossoms are bright white and individually small, but they are arranged in rounded clusters a few inches across. The plants are two to three ...

White snakeroot is toxic. This plant is can grow anywhere from 1-4 feet high, has fibrous roots and produces white, tuft like flowers, the leaves are opposite, broadly ovate, with long petioles ...

White snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) is a potentially toxic plant, particularly for dairy animals as the toxins can be passed through the milk. It caused many human deaths during the age of ...

The white snakeroot wildflower is now blooming in woods and bottomlands in North Georgia. The plant, however, contains toxins that, if ingested, can cause severe sickness and death in people, pets ...

It was not until the 1920s that it was recognized that cattle that grazed on white snakeroot caused humans to die if they drank the cow’s milk.

Common name: Chocolate-leaf white snakeroot Genus/species/variety: Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate' (a.k.a. Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate' - botanical nomenclature is always shifting and changing.

Gardening columnist Charlie Giedeman identified this plant as white snakeroot, a poisonous weed that grows in the Midwest. News-Democrat Q: Enclosed is a weed that has been growing in my vegetable ...