Outdoor Leader SkillsOutdoor Leader Skills

Native PlantsNative Plants

Poisonous Plants

Poisonous Plants

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Agenda

• Poisonous Plants• Plants• Resource Links

jcupak@gmail.com

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Tenderfoot Requirement 11Tenderfoot Requirement 11

• Identify local poisonous plants

• Tell how to treat for exposure to them

Identify the Planton the Other Side

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Oh No! It’s Poison Ivy!Oh No! It’s Poison Ivy!

• Identify local poisonous plants• Tell how to treat for exposure to them

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Poison IvyPoison Ivy

In the Spring In the Summer

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Poison OakPoison Oak

Poison Oak grows as a decidious shrub throughoutmountains and valleys of California, generally below5,000 feet.

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Poison SumacPoison Sumac

It is a tall shrub or small tree with 6-12 leaflets arranged in pairs, and an additional single leaflet at the end of the midrib. The small yellowish green flowers, borne in clusters, mature into whitish green fruits that hang in loose clusters 10-30 cm inlength. The male and female flowers of poison sumac are on separate plants, as in poison ivy and western poison oak.

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Staghorn SumacStaghorn Sumac

The large dark crimson - or rarely orange

to yellow - pinnate leaves of this sumac have

15-31 narrow, ellipti to lanceolate, serrate

leaflets that can be up to 15 cm (6") long.

The stems and fruits of Staghorn Sumac are

densely hairy, as in the "velvet stage" of a

stag's antlers.

This is NOT Poisonous!

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Other Poisonous Plants• Mushrooms• Black Cherry• Bracken Fern• Pokeweek

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LinksLinksPoison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac Information Centerhttp://poisonivy.aesir.com/welcome.html#Info

Poison Ivy - What You’ve Been ITCHING to Knowhttp://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dpae/cons/ivy.PDF

Garden Note 21 Common Poisonous Plants in Home and Groundshttp://www.ces.ncsu.edu/cumberland/hotline/gardenincumb/gardennote21.html

Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Treatment Productshttp://www.teclabsinc.com/

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First Class Requirement 6First Class Requirement 6

• Identify or show signs of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community

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Community

• A group of organisms– Plants and animals

• Inhabit the same region– Usually climate dependent

• Interact with / depend upon each other

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Temperate Forest Community

• Canopy Trees– Beech, Birch, Maple, Oak– Pine, Cedar, other evergreens

• Bushes– Berries, etc.

• Ground Cover– Lichens, mosses, and ferns– Flowering plants

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Temperate Forest

Fall color in the Eastern Deciduous Forest.

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LinksLinks

The "Cookit" Foldable Family Panel

http://www.solarcooking.org/cookit.htm

Norwegian Apple Pie

http://home.comcast.net/~jcupak744/Scouting/ApplePie.html

Mouse Souphttp://home. comcast.net/~jcupak744/Scouting/MouseSoup.html

Community and Ecosystem Dynamics http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookcommecosys.html