Safe Leafy Greens
A non-exhaustive list of safe leafy greens to feed your bearded dragon or tortoise and other vegetation loving reptiles
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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