Dogbane

[Sarah]

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonousmilky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

[juan98]

any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root

[soniportgo]

Any species of genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae

[Frankykap]

The leaves are produced opposite by pairs upon the branches: the flower consists of one leaf, cut into several segments: from its flower-cup arises the pointal, fixed like a nail in the backpart of the flower. Philip Miller

[LouissaRini]

Dogbane, dog-bane, dogs bane, and other variations, some of them regional and some transient, are names for certain plants that are reputed to kill or repel dogs; bane originally meant slayer, and was later applied to plants to indicate that they were poisonous to particular creatures.