This is a list of plants I’ve found growing in our upland areas – mostly prairie and savanna remnants on dry sandy soils.

Achillea millefolium – Yarrow
Agalinis aspera – Rough False Foxglove
Ambrosia artemisifolia – Common Ragweed
Amorpha canescens – Lead Plant
Anemone cylindrica – Thimbleweed
Antennaria neglecta – Field Pussy Toes
Antennaria plantaginifolia – Plantain Pussy Toes
Apocynum androsaemifolium – Dogbane
Arabis lyrata – Sand Cress
Artemisia campestris – Wormwood
Asclepias exaltata – Poke Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed
Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias viridiflora – Green Milkweed
Aster ericoides – Heath Aster
Aster laevis – Smooth Blue Aster
Aster oblongifolius – Aromatic Aster
Aster oolentangiensis – Sky Blue Aster
Aster sericeus – Silky Aster
Astragalus canadensis – Canada Milk-vetch
Calystegia spithamaea – Low Bindweed
Campanula rotundifolia – Harebell
Castilleja sessiliflora – Downy Yellow Painted Cup
Cirsium discolor – Field Thistle
Comandra umbellata – Bastard Toadflax
Coreopsis palmata – Prairie Coreopsis
Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover
Desmodium canadense – Canada Tick-trefoil
Draba reptans – Common Whitlow-grass
Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus – Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron strigosus – Daisy Fleabane
Euphorbia corollata – Flowering Spurge
Fragaria virginiana – Wild Strawberry
Gentiana alba – Creamy Gentian
Gentianella quinquefolia – Stiff Gentian
Geum triflorum – Prairie Smoke
Gnaphalium obtusifolium – Sweet Everlasting
Hedeoma hispida – Rough False Pennyroyal
Helianthemum bicknellii – Hoary Frostweed
Helianthus occidentalis – Naked-stemmed Sunflower
Helianthus strumosus/hirsutus – Rough Sunflower
Heuchera richardsonii – Alumroot
Hieracium kalmii – Canada Hawkweed
Hieracium scabrum – Rough Hawkweed
Hypericum majus – Larger Canadian St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum – Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypoxis hirsuta – Yellow Star-grass
Krigia biflora – False Dandelion
Kuhnia eupatorioides – False Boneset
Lathyrus venosus – Veiny Pea
Lechea intermedia – Pinweed
Lechea stricta – Prairie Pinweed
Lespedeza capitata – Bush Clover
Liatris aspera – Rough Blazing Star
Linum sulcatum – Yellow Flax
Liparis lilifolia – Purple Twayblade
Lithospermum canescens – Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum incisum – Fringed Puccoon
Lobelia spicata – Spiked Lobelia
Monarda fistulosa – Bergamot
Physalis heterophylla – Clammy Ground Cherry
Physalis virginiana – Virginia Ground Cherry
Plantago rugelii – American Plantain
Polanisia dodecandra – Clammy-weed
Polygala polygama – Purple Milkwort
Polygala sanguinea – Field Milkwort
Polygala verticillata var. isocycla – WhorledMilkwort
Ratibida pinnata – Yellow Coneflower
Rosa – Wild Rose
Rubus flagellaris – Northern Dewberry
Rubus hispidus – Dewberry
Rudbeckia hirta – Black-eyed Susan
Scutellaria parvula var. missouriensis – Small Skullcap
Senecio paupercula – Balsam Ragwort
Silene antirrhina – Sleepy Catchfly
Sisyrinchium campestre – Prairie Blue Eyed Grass
Solidago missouriensis – Missouri Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis – Gray Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides – Upland White Goldenrod
Solidago rigida – Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Spiranthes magnicamporum – Great Plains Ladies Tresses
Tradescantia ohienses – Common Spiderwort
Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root
Viola pedata – Birdfoot Violet
Viola pedatifida – Prairie Violet
Zigadenus elegans – White Camas
– Yellow Loosestrife