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Chinese Yam
Dioscorea oppositifolia (sometimes called D. batatas)
Invasive
Clasping Venus’ Looking Glass
Triodanis perfoliata (formerly Specularia perfoliata)
Climbing False Buckwheat (Crested Buckwheat)
Fallopia scandens (formerly Polygonum scandens)
Common Cinquefoil
Potentilla simplex
Common Ground Cherry
Physalis longifolia
Edible
Florida Lettuce (Woodland Lettuce)
Lactuca floridana
Edible
Goldenrods
Solidago spp. (23 species in Missouri)
Hispid Buttercup
Ranunculus hispidus
Hoary Puccoon (Orange Puccoon)
Lithospermum canescens
Horseweed (Canada Fleabane, Hog Weed)
Conyza canadensis (formerly Erigeron canadensis)
Johnson Grass
Sorghum halepense
Invasive
Large-Flowered Gaura
Oenothera filiformis (formerly Gaura longiflora, G. biennis)
Milkweeds
Subfamily Asclepiadoideae
Ox-Eye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare (formerly Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)
Pale Indian Plantain
Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (also Cacalia atriplicifolia)
Pencil Flower
Stylosanthes biflora
Philadelphia Fleabane
Erigeron philadelphicus
Pokeweed
Phytolacca americana
Poisonous
Pussytoes (Indian Tobacco)
Antennaria parlinii
Sedges
Carex, Schoenoplectus, Scirpus, and other genera
Shining Blue Star
Amsonia illustris
Showy Partridge Pea
Chamaecrista fasciculata (formerly Cassia fasciculata)
Sunflowers
Helianthus spp.
Tall Fescue
Festuca arundinacea
Invasive
Tick Trefoils (Sticktights; Beggar's Lice)
Desmodium spp. (17 species in Missouri)
Western Ironweed (Baldwin's Ironweed)
Vernonia baldwinii
White and Yellow Sweet Clovers
Melilotus albus and M. officinale
Invasive
White Crownbeard
Verbesina virginica
White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum (formerly Aster pilosus)
Yellow Wood Sorrel
Oxalis stricta
Edible
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