This page is intended to answer questions which may arise while viewing this website.  Choose from the topics below for help:

General Information Application Buttons
Introduction Plants by Common Name
Plants by Latin Name Pull-Down Menus
"Poisonous Plants of Pennsylvania" 
 

 

General Information

                        
This application is intended to help you study for the Poisonous Plant section of Pharmacology.  It contains photographs of each plant covered in the course. For some plants there is also text information and/or slides of the animal lesions caused by that plant. 

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Application Buttons

The purpose of the application buttons is to allow you to get to various parts of the application directly. The individual button functions are defined below:

   allows you to return to the University of Pennsylvania's Computer-Aided Learning project homepage to access other course pages

 

  allows you to return to the Poisonous Plants home page

 

  takes you to a glossary of basic plant terms. It is broken down into four categories - General, Leaves, Flowers, and Fruits.

 

  brings you back to this page to assist you with problems

 

  opens a page containing a list of plants by common name

 

  opens a page containing a list of plants by latin name

 

  when this button appears on a plant page, it will take you to the entry in the "Poisonous Plants of Pennsylvania" publication for further information as well as to a black and white diagram of the plant

 

  when this button appears on a plant page, it will take you to a page containing slides of the plant's physical effect on an animal

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Introduction

The introduction includes information on the economic impact of plant poisonings, types of toxins, diagnosis and treatment, and how to submit a plant for identification. Written by Dr. Robert H. Poppenga.

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Plants by Common Name

This page lists all the plants in alphabetical order by common name. Clicking on an entry will take you to the slides and/or text for that plant. This page is accessible by clicking on the         button when available.      

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Plants by Latin Name

This page lists all the plants in alphabetical order by Latin name. Clicking on an entry will take you to the slides and/or text for that plant. This page is accessible by clicking on the:     button when available.

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Pull-Down Menus

These may be found on the top of all plant pages.  By clicking once on the arrow to the right of the menu, a listing of plants will become available.  The mouse may then be used to highlight the desired plant from the list.  Another click, while on the desired selection, will take you to the plant's page.  The menus are below and are functional:

Select a Plant by:

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"Poisonous Plants of Pennsylvania"

This portion of the website represents a reproduction of a publication from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.  The site may be used for reference on its own.  Alternatively, the    button, when it appears on a plant's page within the CAL Poisonous Plants site, will link directly to the "Poisonous Plants of Pennsylvania" publication for further information as well as a diagram of the plant in question.

To access the publication on it's own click here.

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Copyright © 2002

University of Pennsylvania
Created by:   Alexander Chan (2003), Daphne Downs (2002), Chris Tsai (2001), Brett Begley (2000), Janet Triplett (1997)
Faculty Advisor:  Dr. Robert Poppenga