If it was me....I would leave them, they will add Asparagus to your bed (you can't have too much Asparagus ;-) The Males are better (but mainly to a commercial grower ,whose livelihood is based upon critical percentages ,their bottom line has to be met or they don't make a profit), but for a backyard gardener, the difference in production is maybe 10% less than optimum. Totally Wonderful... Enjoy

Ta da, arbordave! That was my first thought since we have two liquid ambers…what we call sweet gum here in coastal Ca. They are one of the few for beautiful fall folliage here, so I adore them…. gum balls and all! I miscounted the leaves from the volunteer as they are baby-sized. Here are more pics to be certain. Growing off one stem, would it become a tree if I replant it? Now I feel silly , but worth it if you can tell me yay or nay on replanting. This first pic is a leaf from our sweet gum tree. Thanks so much to you all !!!

Floral, could it possibly also be a Physalis species? Is there something diagnostic that makes you think it's S. americanum? Given all the similarity, and variation in the leaves of both genera, maybe waiting to see a flower might be advisable?

Floral, I wouldn't rule out Boltonia asteroides just yet. Clearer photos of the flowers and phyllaries should confirm whether this plant is Boltonia asteroides, Symphyotrichum pilosum, or Symphyotrichum dumosum. I looked at the gestalt of the plant, and thought Symphyotrichum. Boltonia asteroides normally has larger leaves, sparingly distributed throughout the flowering branches, also the flowers look smaller than B. asteroides, and the ray petal count seems less than normal. I grow Boltonia decurrens and Symphyotrichum pilosum. Boltonia species have more ray petals than Symphyotrichum species, same as Erigeron species. Symphyotrichum pilosum Photo by Katy Chayka, (Minnesota Wildflowers.) Symphyotrichum dumosum Boltonia asteroides Symphyotrichum dumosum Boltonia asteroides Boltonia asteroides Boltonia asteroides. The person who took this photo was hoping this plant was Solidago ptarmicoides, but S. ptarmicoides leaves are much narrower than these. I was stumped, and I ruled out Boltonia because of this plants small stature. My Boltonia decurrens has reached 11 ft. tall, and I have no experience with Boltonia species in the wild. We had a long drought and it must have stunted this plant and caused it to flower without forming large branches. Boltonia asteroides Symphyotrichum dumosum https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/wetland/plants/false_aster.htm Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Around my area the Frost Aster is common in the wild, and a common wind planted garden vollunteer. We don't recommend growing it in the garden because of it's weediness, but I still appreciate it's flowers at a time of the year when most other plants have finished blooming. A pot with an aster is better than a pot with nothing but dirt. Several asters I grow have that weedy nature, but I leave many vollunteers to bloom for the pollinators and migrating Monarch butterflies, and then I pull them out afterwards so they don't go to seed. In a fake world of asphalt and cement, a bee or butterfly gathering nectar on a plant that vollunteered in a vacant pot can give hope, peace, and enjoyment. It could be a life saver for an exhausted migrating Monarch butterfly? Enough of the negative branding, cancel culture complainers who just love to criticize. They lack understanding and would rather comply with, and spread the weed propaganda the herbicide corporations have been poisoning American's minds with for years.