Plants of Missouri

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This flower has five petals, either all lilac or two of a deep velvet color and three of a paler color. May also (rarely) be white with some combination of these colors.

This tree is medium sized with alternate, feather compound leaves. At the base of the leaves there is a pair of small angled spines. Flowers have five petals and are snowy with a yellow blotch on the inside of the uppermost petal.

This plant consists of a rosette of fuzzy, green leaves. The leaves are extremely soft and can be up to one foot long.

This flower has orange petals with darker orange or purple spots on the petals. They have large protruding stamens and is a perennial lily.

This type of daisy is not native to North America but grows in fields and pastures, fencerows, and roadsides. This plant is considered an invasive exotic species. It has large flowerheads that can be up to two inches across. They are white ray florets and a yellow center disk.

This plant is also called stinging nettle because of the hairs along its stems and leaves which contain caustic irritants.

This native perennial grass has flowering stalks that can reach 1-4 feet tall. Bases of leaves are typically blueish and flower clusters are soft and slightly curved.

This plant grows in a vine with alternate, simple leaves. The leaves grow 4-6 inches long and 3-6 inches wide. Its fruit is black, glossy, and globe shaped covered with a waxy coating when ripe. They turn sweet after frost.

This aggressive native vine has tube-shaped flowers in terminal clusters. The flowers can be up to 3 inches long and are variations of orange and red-orange. Some people can develop a skin rash after touching the plant, giving it the common name “cow-itch”.

This is a winter annual with very small, four-petaled flowers. They range in color from purple-blue to white to reddish-purple. The petals always point toward the sky.

This tree is medium to very large with thick, gray-brown bark that is deeply grooved with maturity. Leaves are alternate and 6-12 inches long, 3-6 inches wide. They are spatula shaped and broadest in the middle. Twigs are light brown and hairy. Acorns can be solitary or paired and have a messy, fringed, or ragged border.

This plant bears fruit that resembles a blackberry. The flowers resemble those in the rose family and have five sepals and five petals. The alternate leaves are mostly 3-divided and occur as broadly oval shaped with coarse teeth.

Weedy perennial native to Eurasia with fibrous roots that can be up to three feet deep. The stems branch only at the top and are slightly hairy when young, becoming covered with hair as the plant grows.

Also known as the silk tree, this tree is an invasive species that produces pink, tassel-like flowers. They produce flat seed pods that are linear and yellowish brown. Bark is smooth, tight, blotched, gray and sometimes brownish on new growth.