Poisonous Plant (Berries)

You could take a close up picture and post a link to it. Or find out if you have a county extension office in your area and have someone there take a look at it. You are doing great to make sure the kids don't ever put unknown plants in their mouths- I always tell my son that those plants are for the birds to eat, not for people. And I keep the number for poison control on my refrigerator just in case.

I'm not from your area, but I think this might be it, from http://dcmga.com/
Call ###-###-#### ........ When volunteers are available, you may bring in a sample of diseased plants or plants you want us to identify, or call to ask your gardening questions.

bring leaf, twig and berries to the home dopot gardening department and they can tell you. most of the employes are master gardeners.

There are a couple of places I can think of:
- a local nursery or landscaping company should be able to identify the plant, then you can look up on the toxicity
- a local university or college with a horticulture/botany program

You can also enter a close description into google and see if you get any hits. I had a suspicious weed growing in the back yard, also with red berries and found out via google that it was nightshade (poisonous).

Good luck!

Another option is an arboretum if there are any near you or conservatories. I had a plant that I wanted to know if it was native or a weed or whatever. I took a clipping to a local conservatory/green house type and they told me that it was an invasive plant. I decided to take them all out and plant a native one in its place. You will want to include at least part of a stem since sometimes leaves cannot be distiguished from similar plants.