MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 91 
Natural 
Botanical name Common name Locality distribution 
Heleochloa schoenoides...Rush cat-tail 
TASS Ba orc ate cas Waste places.....Europe 
Heliotropium indicum.....Indian heliotrope.River banks and 
bottoms ....... India 
PLANTS INTRODUCED BY RAILROADS, NATIVE 
Acalypha ostryaefolia..... Hornbeam three- 
seeded mercuryAlong river bluff 
in S. St. Louis.N. J. to Kan., 
Fla. and 
Mex. 
Amaranthus blitoides......Prostrate 
amaranth ..... Weed in waste 
DlACES sc eek West of the 
Rockies 
Dysodia papposa.......... False dog-fennel..Along roads and 
StT6AMsA esses as Ohio to Neb., 
south to 
Mex, and 
Ariz. 
Helianthus occidentalis...Few-leaved 
sunflower ..... Along roadsides. .Ohio to Minn., 
south to Fla. 
Helenium tenuifolium..... Fine-leaved 
sneezeweed ....Waste places .....Va. to Fla., 
Mo., Ark. 
and Tex. 
Leptochloa fascicularis....Salt-meadow 
leptochloa .....Roadside ditches. Mass., south 
along coast 
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus False dandelion..Along roadsides..Del. to Fla., 
Mo. and 
Tex. 
Solanum rostratum........Beaked 
nightshade ....Waste places.....Nev., Neb. 
and N. M. 
Solanum Torreyi.......... Torrey’s 
nightshade ....Waste places.....Prairies, Kan., 
and Tex. 
Verbesina encelioides..... Golden 
crownbeard .... Moist soil, not 
common .......Kan. to Tex.,, 
Ariz. and 
Mex., also 
Fla. 
