Are the flowers small, like chamomile? If so, it could be Pennsylvania Fleabane, a wildflower. Visit your local library and compare your photo to one in their wildflower books.
Looks to be an aster here (Ark) known as an symphyotrichum patens.....of which chicory is in this group also. The website I use is www.USWildflowers.com from its home page you can find guides listed by state, and other references to flower id. The scientific names along with the common for the area/region are given, native/not, maps showing where they are found and if the flower is endangered. Sorry, sometimes I run on...
I just put these in my garden. It's a Gaillardia or Blanket flower. The leaves are narrow with some that are silvery and look like Dianthus leaves. Rudbeckia has larger deep green leaves with large serrated margins.
These grow wild all over the mountain area in NM around Albuquerque. They are yellow here and usually have little black bugs all over them. They are not asters os Gaillardia, maybe fleebane(because of the bugs) or milkweed.
I think it is a color variant of Western Salsify (which is typically dandelion yellow). I saw this color for the first time about 4 weeks ago in Glenwood Springs, CO. "Weeds of the West" also says Common Salsify has purple flowers.
This is a native bachelor button i.e. a wildflower. My mom called them "pinks." Some have deeper pink blossoms - also white, blue, purple and lavender.
I'll go with Kim, on this one too - They grow in the wild here, - wild flower, weed your choice. Know I know it's name too. They grow in stoney areas and go from bloom to seed in a matter of day.
Definitely not Bachelor Buttons, (corn flowers (?)) My Great Grandmother had an entire bed of them. I can't seem to get them to come up 2 years in arrow.
Definitely not Bachelor Buttons, (corn flowers (?)) My Great Grandmother had an entire bed of them. I can't seem to get them to come up 2 years in arrow.