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Common Cinquefoil
Potentilla simplex
Grasses
All true grasses (species in the grass family).
Horseweed (Canada Fleabane, Hog Weed)
Conyza canadensis (formerly Erigeron canadensis)
Indian Hemp (Dogbane)
Apocynum cannabinum
Poisonous
Johnson Grass
Sorghum halepense
Invasive
Large-Flowered Gaura
Oenothera filiformis (formerly Gaura longiflora, G. biennis)
Milkweeds
Subfamily Asclepiadoideae
New World Asters (American Asters)
Symphyotrichum spp. (formerly Aster spp.)
Ohio Horsemint
Blephilia ciliata
Edible
Philadelphia Fleabane
Erigeron philadelphicus
Plainleaf Pussytoes (Indian Tobacco)
Antennaria parlinii
Sedges
Carex, Schoenoplectus, Scirpus, and other genera
Showy Partridge Pea
Chamaecrista fasciculata (formerly Cassia fasciculata)
Sunflowers
Helianthus spp.
Tall Fescue
Festuca arundinacea
Invasive
Tall Thoroughwort (Tall Boneset)
Eupatorium altissimum
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)
White Snakeroot
Ageratina altissima (formerly Eupatorium rugosum)
Poisonous
Yellow Wood Sorrel
Oxalis stricta
Edible
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