Fly Poison, Crow Poison, or Stagger Grass Amianthium muscaetoxicum, Lily Family, Liliaceae Yes, this plant is quite poisonous.

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Fly Poison, Crow Poison, or Stagger Grass literally is poison, especially the bulbs. The plant has been used for a natural poison to kill, you guessed it, flies. The name Stagger Grass refers to the effect it has on livestock that is careless enough to eat the plant.

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