I found this in my notes, not sure where it came from but wanted to preserve it and thought you might find it useful too. Remember just like with People, too much of anything even good stuff can be bad. Practice moderation for safety. Here are the Plants & Trees:
EDIBLE? (Do’s)
- Agapanthas
- Althea
- Angel Wing Bigoneas
- Apple
- Arborvita
- Bamboo
- Banana, entire plant, fruit & peel
- Barkcloth fig (ficus natalensis)
- Bay Tree Leaves green and dried
- Bean (all parts)
- Beets, leaves and root
- Blackberry bushes (all parts)
- Black Locus
- Bramble
- Broccoli (all parts)
- Buckbrush (aka coralberry or indian currant)
- Cabbage
- Camellias
- Cantaloupe: fruit, seeds and peel
- Collard Greens
- Carrots
- Catnip
- Cedar Needles (leaves) & Bark
- Celery
- Citrus
- Clover
- Comfrey
- Corn husks & silk
- Cottonwood
- Coyote Bush (Baccharis)
- Dandelion
- Douglas Fir
- Dogwood
- Elm
- English Ivy
- Fava Bean pods
- Fern
- Fescue grass
- Ficus
- Garlic
- Ginger Root
- Grape, entire plants
- Grape Vine
- Grapefruit, fruit & peel
- Greenbrier
- Hay Plant
- Heavenly Bamboo
- Hemlock Trees (which are not the same as the poisonous hemlock, an herbaceous species of plant which is in the carrot family that bears the scientific name “Conium maculatum”)
- Hibiscus
- Honeysuckle, entire plant
- Hyssop
- Ivy
- Jackfruit leaves
- Jade
- Jambolan leaves
- Japanese Elm
- Japanese Knotweed aka: polygonum cuspidatum aka: fallopia japonica.
- Japanese Magnolias (blooms/leaves)
- Johoba
- Kudzu
- Lantana – appears on both lists
- Lilac bark /branches
- Lupine – appears on both lists: Seeds are the part of the plant that are the greatest problem.
- Magnolia Leaves green and dried
- Mango leaves
- Manzanita (Arctostaphylos)
- Maple Trees, leaves & bark – (goats will readily strip the bark and kill the tree) NOTE Red Maples (Red Maples can be toxic)
- Marijuana-in moderation
- Mesquite
- Mint
- Mock Orange
- Monkeyflower (Mimulus)
- Mountain Ash (excellent goat forage tree)
- Morning Glory
- Moss
- Mulberry (entire plant)
- Mullein
- Mustard
- Nettles
- Lemon Grass
- Oak Tree Leaves (In Moderation)
- Okara- pulp left over after making Soymilk
- Onion
- Orange, fruit & peel
- Paloverde – needles & seed pods
- Patterson’s Curse
- Pea Pods
- Peanuts, including the shells
- Pear
- Pencil cactus
- Peppers
- Pepper plants
- Photinia
- Pine Trees (in small amounts only)
- Plum, all
- Privet Pumpkin
- Poison Ivy
- Poison Oak
- Poison Sumac, the vine
- Pomegranates
- Poplar Trees
- Potatoes
- Raisins
- Raspberry, entire plant (goats loves raspberry)
- Red-tips
- Rose, all, entire plant (goats loves roses)
- Rhubarb Leaves
- Salvation Jane
- Sassafras
- Silver Berry
- Southern Bayberry (myrica cerifera)
- Spruce trees
- Sumac, the tree
- Sunflowers
- St. John’s Wort (can cause sun sensitivity in light skinned goats)
- Strawberry
- Sweet Gum Trees
- Sweet potato leaves
- Tomatoes (cherry tomatoes make wonderful treats)
- Tomato plants- in moderation
- Tree of Heaven
- Turnips
- Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria)
- Yarrow
- Yellow Locus
- Yucca
- Vetch
- Virginia Creeper
- Wandering Jew
- Watermelon
- Wax Myrtle (myrica cerifera)
- Weeping Willow
- Wild Rose, entire plant (goats loves roses)
- Wild Tobacco
POISONOUS (Don’ts!)
- African Rue
- Andromeda (related to foxglove)
- Avocado- South American Avocado leaves/tree such as Haas or crosses with Haas
- Avocado- Fuarte (definitely)
- Azalea
- Brouwer’s Beauty Andromeda
- Boxwood
- Burning Bush berries
- Calotropis
- Cassava (manioc)
- China Berry Trees, all parts
- Choke Cherries, wilting especially
- Choke Cherry Leaves in abundance
- Datura
- Dog Hobble
- Dumb Cane (diffenbachia) (Houseplant)
- Euonymus Bush berries
- False Tansy
- “Fiddleneck”- know by this common name in CA. It is a fuzzy looking, 12″ to 15″ plant, with small yellow blossoms, shaped on a stem shaped like the neck of a fiddle.
- Flixweed
- Fusha
- Holly Trees/Bushes
- Ilysanthes floribunda
- Japanese pieris (extremely toxic)
- Japanese Yew
- Lantana – appears on both lists
- Larkspur- a ferny, flowering plant in shades of blue, pink and white.
- Lasiandra
- Lilacs
- Lily of the Valley (Pieris Japonica)
- Lupine – appears on both lists: Seeds are the part of the plant that are the greatest problem.
- Madreselva (Spain) patologia renal
- Maya-Maya
- Monkhood
- Milkweed
- Mountain Laurel
- Nightshade- appears on both lists: Whether this is really poisonous is questionable because I have received a post saying “my goats eat nightshade all the time”. We also have a lot of Nightshade on own property and none of our goats have died from it. I tend to think it is ok in moderation.
- Oleander
- Pieris Japonica (extreamly toxic)
- Red Maples
- Rhododendron
- Rhubarb leaves
- Tu Tu (the Maori name for Coriaria arborea)
- Wild Cherry, -wilted- leaves (fresh and fully dried are not poisonous)
- Yew