Texas Gardening: ID these please, 1 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
This got me thinking about ragweed. I have 2 kinds, Giant Ragweed by the dry creek and some little Western Ragweed by the road. Last year things got crazy with all the rain and the Giant Ragweed formed groves out there, some as tall as 10 feet. I finally got those cut down in the fall. But now, you have to really look hardy to see any. There's a couple of plants on the steep side of the creek a few feet tall. Then there's others that either never really came back from being cut down...or they're being grazed. I wonder....the deer and other wild animals are still extremely over-populated from last year's lush vegetation. The deer are eating things they only eat here when truly desperate. With heat, wind and only a few inches of rainfall so far this year things are so bad. Could something be eating Giant Ragweed? Ugh! Here's a pic of one that at least has a little growth on it: