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cinquefoil

Symptoms: Fever, chills, loss of appetite, headache, nausea, and tremors.

Treatment: Pygmy Bitter Root, Blue Lupine, Black Sagebrush, Jacob's Ladder Phlox, Yarrow, Hoary Balsamroot, Twinflower, Californian Wild Rose, Beard-Tongue Penstemon, Sundial Lupine, Sand Verbena.

 

Location: Everywhere.

Yellow Monkeyflower

Symptoms: Causes kidney and liver failure with prolonged exposure.

Treatment: Paintbrush, Yarrow.

 

Location: Western Yellowstone (Geyser Basin, Gibbon Falls, Bechler River).

Prickly Pear Cactus

Symptoms: Painful to eat, spines contain venom known to cause paralysis.

Treatment: None known.

 

Location: Southern Range, Eastern Yellowstone.

Helianthella

Symptoms: Instant cardiac arrest.

Treatment: None.

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Location: Northern Range (Dunraven Pass).

Elephant Head

Symptoms: Intense stomach upset, and diarrhoea.

Treatment: Groundsel, Paintbrush, Branching Phacelia, Evening Primrose, Hoary Balsamroot, Californian Wild Rose, Beard-Tongue Penstemon.

 

Location: Western Yellowstone (Geyser Basin).

Monkshood

Alternate Name(s): "Wolf's Bane"

 

Symptoms: Tingling, numbness of the mouth, nausea, vomiting, laboured breathing, irregular or weakened heart rate, chills, fever, confusion, mania, convulsions, paralysis, and eventual multiple organ failure.

Treatment: Paintbrush, Jacob's Ladder Phlox, Yarrow, Arnica, Californian Wild Rose, Wild Flax, Beard Tongue Penstemon, Sundial Lupine.

 

Location: Everywhere.

White Geranium

Symptoms: Redness/irritation around the mouth, vomiting, anorexia, depression, and dermatitis at points of contact.

Treatment: Fireweed, Blue Lupine, Arnica, Summer Coralroot, Sticky Geranium, Wild Flax, Sand Verbena.

 

Location: Everywhere.

Ladies' Tresses (Orchid)

Symptoms: Foaming/frothing at the mouth, seizures, and heart failure.

Treatment: Jacob's Ladder Phlox, Beard Tongue Penstemon.

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Location: Western Yellowstone (Geyser Basin).

Pussytoes

Symptoms: Headache, dizziness, nausea, restlessness. 
 

Additional: Not fatal.


Treatment: Black Sagebrush, Jacob's Ladder Phlox, Evening Primrose, Hoary Balsamroot, Twinflower, Sundial Lupine, Fiddleneck Phacelia, Red Larkspur.

 

Location: Everywhere.

Sulfur Buckwheat

Symptoms: Irritation of the nose, eyes, throat and lungs, sore throat, runny nose, burning eyes, cough, swollen lungs, difficulty breathing.

Treatment: Mexican White Sagebrush, Black Sagebrush, Cow Parsnip, Hoary Balsamroot, Summer Coralroot, Sticky Geranium, Wild Flax, Green Rabbitbrush. 

 

Location: Everywhere.

Golden Alyssum

Symptoms: Causes excruciating abdominal pain if eaten.

Treatment: Groundsel, Paintbrush, Branching Phacelia, Evening Primrose, Hoary Balsamroot, Californian Wild Rose, Wild Flax, Beard Tongue Penstemon.

 

Location: Southern Range.

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