Wildflowers

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey

Ever since I was a young girl, I have loved wildflowers. Every day, I would pick a bouquet of roadside blooms. Upstate New York has quite a variety of pretty ones.  During my adult life, living in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York has exposed to me to many different native flowers. However, I have never seen such a plethora of beautiful colors as I have seen the past few weeks in Texas. And its October! Wild sunflowers, daisies, and others I need to research the names of are in full bloom in the fields everywhere!
I snuck back behind our development yesterday, where there is a little forest with small meadows and awesome gnarly trees to take some photos.  Today, I couldn't resist picking some while walking Rose to school.  In New Hampshire, you can get ticketed for picking wildflowers.  I don't know the laws in Texas, so I have been expecting the military police to track me down all morning.

Daisies in October!  In New York, they are a June flower. In NH, late June, early July.   In NC, they are a May bloom.  Although this flower is in the daisy family, it is not the same species as the spring variety.  Still is pretty, though.

 This looks like a sweetpea.

 I think this is some sort of sunflower.  They grow rather tall with multiple blooms on each plant.

 If you take a close look at the leaves, they are really cool.  I have no idea what type of flower this is.  I need a flower identifier for this area.

 Some short ground level yellow daisies.

 And here is my bouquet, which I am sure will be the cause of me being dragged away by the MPs.

I am rather embarassed by the fact that I don't know the names of all of the flowers. I think I need to take a trip to Barnes and Noble for a Wildflower field guide. And maybe a latte.