weeds or keepers?

Rockport, TX(Zone 9b)

These 3 things are growing wild around and on our property. Does anybody know what they are? The dragonflies love the one on the left, which is growing in our bog-to-be. The one on the right is also in our bog-to-be. The middle one is from a plant that has sprung up on the empty lot next to ours and is alread 6 feet tall. (We're only a couple of blocks off Aransas Bay, so these are salt-tolerant plants. We had our lot filled, and the bog is an area that we left as is on the salt flats.
I'll post more pix.

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Rockport, TX(Zone 9b)

Another photo. The taller grass kind of splays out. It's surrounded by the plant that is on the right in the first photo I posted. This is our bog.

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Rockport, TX(Zone 9b)

A picture of the plant whose branch is in the middle of the first picture. Sorry it's not a very good picture.

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Rockport, TX(Zone 9b)

And a picture of the other weed - the one standing on its own near the middle of the picture.
Any ideas would be most appreciated.

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Josephine, Arlington, TX(Zone 8a)

Decklife, the plant in the center of your first picture is
Bagpod, Sesbania herbeceae, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/68448
an annual Texas native plant, the other two I don't know.
Josephine.

La Grange, TX(Zone 8b)

The grass in the last photo is of Distichlis spicata var stricta, inland saltgrass. The other grass is harder to ID because there are a number of grasses that look like it. You need to need to acertain whether it grows from a common clump (a bunch grass) or whether it is rhizomatous (spreads by rhizomes). You'll need a clear photo of the whole plant, one of the the entire inflorescence, a close-up of a spikelet ( smaller units that make up the inflorescence) and the seeds. The best bet would be to remove a smaller plant, one that has all the components, bag it to keep it fresh and to get it IDed by your local Cooperative Extension agent.
http://aransas-tx.tamu.edu/

Rockport, TX(Zone 9b)

Thank you so much for the i.d.'s and the advice on what to give the extension agent to make the other i.d. Much appreciated!

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