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Photo of blooming bitterweed plant shown from top.

Bitterweed (Bitter Sneezeweed)

Helenium amarum

Photo of false garlic flowers

False Garlic

Nothoscordum bivalve

Photo of tall goldenrod plant with flowers

Goldenrods

Solidago spp. (23 species in Missouri)

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

Grasses

All true grasses (species in the grass family).

Photo of Johnson grass flower clusters

Johnson Grass

Sorghum halepense

Invasive

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 dense stand of prairie blazing star or gayfeather at Pawnee Prairie

Prairie Blazing Star (Gayfeather)

Liatris pycnostachya

Edible

Closeup side view of rough blazing star flowerhead

Rough Blazing Star (Rough Gayfeather)

Liatris aspera

Edible

Photo of eastern woodland sedge plant growing among leaf litter.

Sedges

Carex, Schoenoplectus, Scirpus, and other genera

Photo of slender mountain mint flowers

Slender Mountain Mint

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

Edible

Star of Bethlehem cluster of plants with flowers

Star of Bethlehem

Ornithogalum umbellatum

Poisonous

Photo of tall fescue plants

Tall Fescue

Festuca arundinacea

Invasive

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