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Photo of Chinese yam showing leaves and bulbils

Chinese Yam

Dioscorea oppositifolia (sometimes called D. batatas)

Invasive

Rope dodder stems

Dodders

Cuscuta spp.

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

Photo of whorled milkweed flowers.

Milkweeds

Subfamily Asclepiadoideae

Photo of pale Indian plantain flower clusters.

Pale Indian Plantain

Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (also Cacalia atriplicifolia)

Photo of pokeweed plant with dangling stalks of ripe and unripe berries.

Pokeweed

Phytolacca americana

Poisonous

Photo of eastern woodland sedge plant growing among leaf litter.

Sedges

Carex, Schoenoplectus, Scirpus, and other genera

Photo of white snakeroot leaves and flowers

White Snakeroot

Ageratina altissima (formerly Eupatorium rugosum)

Poisonous

Photo of soapweed, a type of yucca

Yuccas (Spanish Bayonet; Soapweed)

Yucca smalliana, Y. glauca, and Y. arkansana

Edible