My outdoor riding area is awash in yellow, with one of my favorite spring flowers, the buttercup. Remember holding them under each other's chins as children to see if "you like butter"? To me they are way too perky and cute to be a problem, but they may be for your horse. You see the buttercup, or the Ranunculus bulbosus,is toxic to horses, and most toxic when the plant is flowering. Symptoms of poisoning may include blood stained urine, salivation, depression,blindness.
There's nothing attractive about ground ivy and it apparently grows all over the USA, and this too can be toxic to horses, causing sweating, shortness of breath, salivation, dilated pupils.
The lesson here is to become familiar with where your horses are grazing and what they are ingesting. Some of the most innocent looking, like red clover, can be some of the most toxic to our equine friends.
Happy Trails, Kathy, Horsedrivensite.net
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