Safe Leafy Greens

This list is not exhaustive, but here is a few ideas of safe leafy greens to feed your bearded dragon, tortoise or other vegetation-loving reptiles!

Safe Salad leaves:

• Rocket
• Peashoots
• chichory
• radicchio
• Lambs lettuce
• Watercress
• Pak Choi
• Lollo rosa
• Frisee

Salad leaves to AVOID!

• Spinach
• Kale Both of these are often mistakenly beleived to be safe, but they prevent the correct metabolism of calcium so are not recommended (although the accidental ingestion of a leaf is not toxic)

Safe Wild 'weeds':

• Dandelion (leaves and yellow flowers)
• Plantain
• Milk thistle
• Bristly Ox-tongue
• Cat's Ear
• Dead Nettle (white and purple)
• Hawk's Beard
• Sedum

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