#cuckoo flower
You will find that there are many common varieties of flowers (or any plant for that matter,) that are poisonous, toxic, or venomous. There are a few relatively safe ways to still use them (without touch or consumption) in your craft if you so wish.
There are plants that can cause organs to stop functioning, including your lungs, kidneys, and heart. This is why it is so important to research properly, and understand how to safely handle it if desired. Do not leave these within the reach of pets or children.
Do NOT ingest these flowers or consume them in any way. This includes burning them for smoke cleansing. In fact, please don’t put anything on or in your body without research, identification, and consulting a medical professional about it first.
Consumption Alternatives:
Contained Vessels:
After properly drying these plants, you can use these plants in sealed sachets and bottle spells, or leave them hanging in a safe place to have a consistent and fluid stream of their energies. Please handle with gloves.
Growing:
If you possess a pet or small child, this is probably not the suggestion for you. Many practitioners use dried foliage because it preserves better and is flammable if desired. However, having a growing and alive plant around also can attract the intentions you desire if done strategically with intent. Please handle with gloves.
Baneful Magic:
Applying the aforementioned methods I’ve laid out, you can sometimes use toxic plants in these forms to do Baneful Magic. Any positive attribute a flower can bring can also be used to revoke or withdraw it, alongside the already toxic energy. Please handle with gloves.
Toxic Flower Magical Properties:
Bluebell:
Prosperity, honesty, contentment, dignity, prosperity, honor, gratitude, wealth, great fortune, humility, thankfulness, and blessings. Toxic.
Columbine:
Romance, intelligence, courage, veneration, experience, compassion, admiration, valor, reverence, love, adoration, and knowledge. Toxic.
Crocus:
Love, visions, cheerfulness, rebirth, innocence, divination, blissfulness, romance, transformation, beginnings, happiness, and simplicity. Toxic.
Cuckoo Flower:
Fertility, romance, persistence, sensuality, conception, love, perseverance, lust, fecundity, tenacity, endurance, and fruitfulness. Toxic.
Daffodil:
Positivity, prosperity, fertility, love, restoration, vitality, good luck, romance, abundance, hopefulness, healing, fortune, and revitalization. Toxic.
Periwinkle:
Romance, concentration, prosperity, knowledge, composure, warding, dexterity, focus, sensuality, abundance, lustfulness, and love. Toxic.
Tulip:
Prosperity, defense, adoration, romance, bounty, potential, protection, abundance, affluence, luxury, opportunity, and good fortune. Toxic.
Other Links:
Flower Magic: I
Flower Magic: II
Flower Magic: III
Flower Magic: Poisonous
Cuckoo Flower:
Fertility, romance, persistence, sensuality, conception, love, perseverance, lust, fecundity, tenacity, endurance, and fruitfulness. Toxic.
Daffodil:
Positivity, prosperity, fertility, love, restoration, vitality, good luck, romance, abundance, hopefulness, healing, fortune, and revitalization. Toxic.
Dandelion:
Divination, wellbeing, manifestation, spirit work, happiness, inspiration, revitalization, psychic power, healing, vitality, and delightfulness.
Echinacea:
Amplification, warding, brilliance, restoration, immunity, inspiration, revitalization, charging, protection, encouragement, and motivation. Poisonous to Animals.
Edelweiss:
Warding, bravery, eternal love, loyalty, romance, daring, allegiance, manifestation, deep devotion, courage, valor, nobility, and true love.
Eyebright:
Mental strength, wellbeing, psychic powers, understanding, clarification, restoration, dexterity, healing, soothing, insight, and warding.
Feverfew:
Protection, illumination, maternity, soothing, warding, fertility, clarification, healing, understanding, fortification, maternal love, and rebirth.
Gardenia:
Spirituality, tranquility, love, compassion, harmony, healing, peaceful, romance, soothing, restoration, harmonization, and serenity.
Geranium:
Fruitfulness, beauty, fortune, protection, love, fertility, compassion, warding, romance, healing, and beauty.
Goldenrod:
Prosperity, divination, affluence, insightfulness, prophetic visions, abundance, lushness, spiritual strength, and good fortune. Toxic to Animals.
Heather:
Shielding, great fortune, security, wealth, fortification, abundance, warding, excellent luck, protection, and weather manipulation.
Heliotrope:
Banishment, luck, affluence, divination, healing, success, warding, restoration, insightfulness, cleansing, forecasting, and prosperity. Poisonous.
Hibiscus:
Divination, glamour, desirability, sensuality, magnificence, psychic gifts, romance, lustfulness, forecasting, and attractiveness. Poisonous to Animals.
Honeysuckle:
Abundance, visions, protection, psychic power, fortitude, prosperity, divination, good fortune, spiritual prowess, connection, and luck. Only some varieties of the petals are edible, and all parts are Poisonous for Animals.
Hyacinth:
Happiness, commitment, confidence, warding, romance, protection, delightfulness, love, vitality, cheerfulness, peacefulness, and beauty. Poisonous.
Other Links:
Flower Magic: I
Flower Magic: III
Flower Magic: Poisonous
Flower Magic: Toxic
Cuckoo flower / lady’s smock / milkmaids
Cardamine pratensis
They are called cuckoo flowers due to the foamy froghopper (spittle bug) nests which can often be found on them and which were referred to as cuckoo spittle or witches spittle.
The flower is said to be sacred to fairies and should never be plucked in bloom or brought indoors. Making a flower crown from them is said to bring bad luck for this reason.
As a medicinal herb it was used against rheumatism as well as kindney and liver problems, mostly due to very high levels of vitamin C.
