These plants may be beautiful, but they contain toxins and poison that can be harmful, and even fatal, to humans and animals.

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 the ...

Blooming now in moist, deciduous woods and bottomlands in North Georgia is an attractive wildflower known as the white snakeroot. “The bright flowers and rich green leaves make this a handsome, ...