Possible Clues:

• V8 vegetable
• Star bit off vegetable
• Lament about occasionally mealie vegetable
• Come late routinely when depleted to get vegetable
• Salad plant: in haste forgetting it
• Dip stick?
• Plant whose name derives ultimately from “parsley” in Greek
• Stuffing ingredient
• Crunchy crudité
• Armstrong alias ___ City