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Photo of several cattail flowering stalks

Cattails

Typha spp.

Edible

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 common scouring rush, many stems in a colony

Horsetails (Scouring Rushes)

Equisetum (3 spp. in Missouri)

Photo of Japanese stiltgrass

Japanese Stiltgrass (Eulalia)

Microstegium vimineum

Invasive

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 several reed canary grass plants with flowering heads

Reed Canary Grass

Phalaris arundinacea

Invasive

Photo of path rush, closeup showing drying fruits.

Rushes

Juncus spp. and Luzula spp.

Photo of eastern woodland sedge plant growing among leaf litter.

Sedges

Carex, Schoenoplectus, Scirpus, and other genera

Photo of common gerardia plant with flowers

Slender False Foxglove

Agalinis tenuifolia (formerly Gerardia tenuifolia)

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)