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barberry

Any spiny shrub belonging to the barberry family, with sour red berries and yellow flowers. These shrubs are often used as hedges. (Genus Berberis, family Berberidaceae.)

The barberry family also includes plants such as the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum) of the eastern North American woodlands.



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From the virginia blue bells to the may apple,gardening comes alive with these fragile,tiny bloomers in it.
Examples of potentially poisonous herbs are: belladonna, blood-root, celandine, chaparral, foxglove, goldenseal, henbane, iris root, Jimson weed, lobelia, May apple (American mandrake), mistletoe, poke root, poison hemlock, stillingia root, turkey corn root, wild cucumber root.
I remember where the colonies of may apples are, even when they're not there, which is most of the time, because they spring up in late March and are yellowing by the end of May.
 
 
 
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