Zigadenus Nuttalli (Noun)
Meaning
A common perennial death camas; Tennessee to Kansas to Texas.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The zigadenus nuttallii is a type of poisonous plant commonly mistaken for edible camas or wild onion due to its bulb, but its resemblance is only superficial as the entire plant of zigadenus nuttallii is toxic.
- Zigadenus nuttallii contains alkaloids that can cause severe or fatal health problems for humans or livestock, primarily through livestock ingesting the plant and then transferring toxins via dairy products or through their tissues in human meals of contaminated beef, such as veal from their sucklings and nursing mothers.
- The zigadenus nuttallii has grass-like leaves to only a few inches in height in spring but flowers extend easily to over one foot high and greenish color.
- Eating the zigadenus nuttallii as a wild edible plant always results in side effects including some severe, because the species is totally toxic due to naturally formed in bulb alkaloids.
- If you mistake zigadenus nuttallii for its edible onionlike aromata from bulbous foliage when hiking please separate yourself and group from close by zigadenus in open fields especially wild grazing by field agricultural livestock if the area zigadenus is fully overrun the only parting human harvest when available seems open trees plus wooded plots in a wide zigadenus ecosystem.