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Photo of American feverfew flower cluster.

American Feverfew

Parthenium integrifolium

Photo of corn salad plant flower clusters showing arrangement of buds.

Corn Salad

Valerianella radiata

Edible

Photo of false garlic flowers

False Garlic

Nothoscordum bivalve

Photo of several big bluestem seed heads against a blue sky.

Grasses

All true grasses (species in the grass family).

Photo of hogwort plant showing upper stem leaves and flowers.

Hogwort (Woolly Croton)

Croton capitatus

Image of Johnny-jump-up.

Johnny-Jump-Up (Field Pansy)

Viola bicolor

Edible

Photo of a large-flowered gaura inflorescence

Large-Flowered Gaura

Oenothera filiformis (formerly Gaura longiflora, G. biennis)

Photo of whorled milkweed flowers.

Milkweeds

Subfamily Asclepiadoideae

Photo of moth mullein flowers

Moth Mullein

Verbascum blattaria

Closeup of single flowerhead of a New World aster with yellow disk florets and lavender ray florets

New World Asters (American Asters)

Symphyotrichum spp. (formerly Aster spp.)

Photo of pale Indian plantain flower clusters.

Pale Indian Plantain

Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (also Cacalia atriplicifolia)

Photo of pale purple coneflower showing white pollen among disk florets

Pale Purple Coneflower

Echinacea pallida

No photo available

Philadelphia Fleabane

Erigeron philadelphicus

Photo of pussytoes showing fuzzy white flowering heads

Plainleaf Pussytoes (Indian Tobacco)

Antennaria parlinii

Photo of eastern woodland sedge plant growing among leaf litter.

Sedges

Carex, Schoenoplectus, Scirpus, and other genera

Photo of small bluet flower showing purplish center

Small Bluet (Tiny Bluet)

Houstonia pusilla (H. minima; Hedyotis crassifolia)

Photo of white heath aster flowers

White Heath Aster

Symphyotrichum pilosum (formerly Aster pilosus)

Photo of wild hyacinth flower cluster

Wild Hyacinth

Camassia scilloides

Edible

Photo of soapweed, a type of yucca

Yuccas (Spanish Bayonet; Soapweed)

Yucca smalliana, Y. glauca, and Y. arkansana

Edible