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Symphyotrichum divaricatum2 or S. subulatum	.Annual Aster	Fall	.
		Annual Aster as common name implies. Ray flowers vary from white to light lavendar, pink, or purple.  Disk flowers are yellow.  Plant survives mowed in lawns where it blooms more compactly, to single, thinly stemmed plant reaching up to 3 feet tall with many branches,  sparsely flowered on each branch. Leaves appear to clasp the stems & branches.  Blooms in the fall for a couple of months.  Seen here flowering in a lawn.  Flowers are about the size of a nickel.

Symphyotrichum ericoides1 (Aster ericoides)	.Heath Aster	Fall	.
		Ray Flowers are white with yellow center disk flowers.  Blooms appearing to cover each stem.  Each flower half the size of a dime or smaller. Blooms in fall.  Plant is a perennial and can be nice in a fall garden.  Grows 1 to 3 feet tall with several branches from the base.

Silphium albiflorum3,1,7	.White-flowered Rosinweed	Late Spring	.
		Ray flowers white, disk flowers white, about 3 inches across. Blooms mid to late spring, perennial.  Deeply lobed, large leaf blades, stiff and rough to the touch. Plant about 1 foot tall with a floral stem that is about 2 ft. tall.  I had several floral stalks this year(2013). During winter winds, the stalks twisted off  at the base and I found them scattered over my 3 acres with those thick, large leaves and some seed heads still intact.  I suspect that is how these plants are able to spread, by the prairie winds, with the dead leaves acting as sails.
Side view of floral head.	opening floral head
seed heads	seeds from 2015 season. compare with seeds from the yellow rosinweed

Marshallia caespitosa var. Caespitosa1, 4	.White Barbara's Buttons	Spring	.
		Disk Flowers only, white.  Spring blooming perennial which dies back to the ground by mid summer leaving just dry floral stalks to mark where it had been.  Plant with narrow grass like leaves, about 4 to 6 inch tall, with flower head stalks about 12 to 16 inches tall, one terminal, flower head per stalk.  Plant growth starts in mid to late winter.  Would make a nice looking border plant for the winter and spring.  Floral  stems can be used in dried flower arrangements (if your cats don't eat them!).  Seed well in the wild.  Seem to like open ground.
		Seed head.

Hymenopappus  scabiousaeus7	.Old Plainsman, Woolly White	Spring	.
		Bracts, white, petal-like, disk flowers, white to rose colored,  multiple floral heads forming clusters at end of central stem . Spring blooming biennial.  Leaves & stems blue-green with very bipinnate leaves from top to bottom..  2 to 4 ft. tall. Single main stem with branching near the top. Some specimens may vary from that. Seems suited for a grassland species. NOTE:  had to change id on this plant as it keyed out to H. scabiosaeus due to the individual  flowers on each head.  See picture below
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Brickellia eupatorioides 3, 2, 7	False Bonset	Fall, Perennial
		aster as seen in fields nearby, fall 2014.  Only saw it in seed so do not know it's color. Awns appears white compared to the Hairy Golden Aster chafe which has a golden cast.  Might mean that the flowers are white? YES! to this plant. Seed heads are clustered at the top of each stem.  2015 - spotted while blooming.  id'd now: found in neighboring field, 1/2 mile south of us. 2014, 2015.  lots more plants this year than last year.  Perennial according to sources.  About 1 to 1 1/2 feet tall.  Blooming in September to October.

Parthenium hysterophorus	False Ragweed	Annual,
		. Not a nice weed but cute flowers, can cause skin irritations.  Found blooming in November, blooms summer throgh fall. Figured it was labeled a weed so took the chance and searched google for it's id.   Came up in first row of pics of  "white flowered weed"
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blues, purples, pinks
 

Symphyotrichum drummondii1	. Texas Aster	Fall	.
.looking for an example of this in white.		White to  lavender ray flowers, yellow disk flowers aging to purple. Leaves large, ovate,1 to few stems with more branching in the upper stem.  Flowers on short stalks, appearing to cover upper branches of stems.  found near creek, shady areas.

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Vernonia baldwinii summer, fall	Ironweed	summer, fall
		summer, up to 5 feet tall, perennial, rhizomatus.
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Centaurea americana or Plectocephalus americanus	Basket Flower	Annual; mid May thru June.
		A Thornless "thistle." Any where from 2 to 6 feet tall.  Lovely cut flower. When ready to seed, the slick black seeds "slip" out of the thick pappus hairs with enough force to send them several feet away from the plant.  Wind helps them release from the seed head. Makes a good cut flower and good garden plant. Moisture will help prolong blooming period otherwise plant dries up after it has gone to seed..
	pappas hairs all gone leaving the "basket" behind.  Makes an interesting dried "flower"
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Liatris Mucronata fall	GayFeather
	Liatris with black Swallowtail.	Good food for butterflies.  Blooms in my area from mid September into November.
Field of Indian Blanket seed heads and blooming Liatris.	field of Indian Blanket seed heads and blooming Liatris		.
When the plant goes to seed, the stem looks like a bottle brush		Seeds still enclosed in bract	Seed with remnants of flower petals still attached

Cirsium texanum	Texas Thistle
		My favorite of the thistles as this one makes a good cut-flower  with long stems and few prickly leaves.  It's an annual so if you don't want them in the yard in the future, harvest the flowers frequently.  Song Birds love the seeds though.  If you see a dead seed head with small tufts of seeds sitting above the main seed fluff, a bird has probably been there harvesting the seeds. Kind of forms a ball when in flower
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As id'd from:
 ¹ Wild Flowers of Texas book by Geyata Ajilvsgi, revised ed. 2003
² Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower Center website,
³ Kansas State Wildflowers website.
⁴ 100 Texas Wildflowers by Dorothy Baird Mattiza for the Native Plant Society of Texas, 1993
⁵ Native Plant Society of Texas
⁶ Texas Wildflowers by Leo Meier & Jan Reid
⁷ Shiner & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas by Diggs, Lipscomb & O'Kennon, 1999
⁸  Google searches used to help verify and find more info
⁹  USDA website Plant Database
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