Fringed poppy mallow (or Standing Winecup) is a Midwest native perennial which most frequently occurs in dryish, rocky soils in prairies, meadows and limestone glades. Plants grow on erect, slender, branching stems which are covered with a bluish-white bloom. Plants have small upper leaves and general plant appearance is lean and lanky. Solitary, upward facing, cup-shaped, five-petaled, magenta flowers bloom from mid-spring to September. Flower petal edges are fringed which gives the plant its common name. Leaves are palmately divided into five to seven finger-like lobes.

This native perennial plant consists of a rosette of basal leaves up to 1½' across and one or more flowering stalks up to 2½' tall. The strap-shaped basal leaves are smooth and rather floppy; they often arch downward or sprawl across the ground in the absence of support from other vegetation. The flowering stalks are erect, slender, hairless, and leafless. Each stalk terminates in a raceme of about 20-80 flowers. Each flower consists of six lavender to pale blue-violet sepals.

Eastern Woodland Sedge is adapted to grow in shaded areas that are somewhat drier than what most sedges prefer. This perennial species grows in bunches and has green flowers that turn into brown fruit from April through June. Its leaves are up to 1/2 inch wide and are rough along the margins. Eastern Woodland Sedge is possibly the most common sedge in Missouri and is found in swamps, bottomland forests, moist and dry upland forests, disturbed shaded locations, lawns, and roadsides.