Nope. they didn't post. I'll try again...

anyone?

Pretty sure the first one is amaranth, don't let it go to seed. I don't know the other one.

Second one looks like some type of ageratum or blue mist flower, maybe. Ageratum pics and info:

Amaranth is edible?

There are many kinds of amaranth. The grain types are grown for their large seedheafs which are highly ornamental and from which the seeds can be harvested and used as a grain (similar to quinoa). Other amaranths are grown as ornamental plants for the flowers and seedheads. Then, there are some that are grown for the foliage, which is used in some dishes like callaloo.

Then, there's the native ones that pop up randomly all over various parts of OK and are plain old weeds, commonly called pigweed. That is what your plant looks like....plain old pigweed. My suggestion is that you remove it quickly before it starts dropping seeds. Even those long, skinny pitiful flowers can produce hundreds of volunteer weed seedlings next year and you'll be yanking out pigweed volunteers for the next 20 years.

The green-flowered amaranth grown as a grain plant has very large seedheads unlike yours. That is one clue to the pigweed's identity as a weed and not as a desirable plant.

Without a close-up look at the leaves It is impossible to tell which pigweed you have.

I am growing amaranth this year...golden something...you are supposed to be able to eat young leaves, but I found them too tough. Maybe cooked. You can eat the weeds, but I don't think they would be any better.

Alrighty! Thanks everyone. I'll cut that ol' pigweed down after work today. I've let it get way too big--it will be chore.

That's a big ole pigweed, PULL IT OUT.. Keep a lookout for several more they never grow alone they like lots,of company.

Doesn't it just make you mad that the plants that thrive are WEEDS?? :)

Absolutely! If I didn't weed energetically and constantly weekly, my garden would have nothing in it but 5 kinds of pigweed, crabgrass, goosegrass, lambs quarters and field bindweed. Oh, and Johnson grass.

All that and bermuda in mine, plus carpetweed.

Dorothy, lol. Bermuda is just a given so I didn't even mention it (thanks for reminding me I left it off the list) but I don't see too much carpetweed. I forgot to mention a springtime favorite of mine (in addition to wild carrots)---catchweed bedstraw. Oh, and prickly lettuce.

Now, if y'all want to talk about weeds in the lawn, I have a whole long list, but as long as we keep it mowed short, no one realizes how little of the lawn is bermuda grass and how much of it is just weeds.

Dawn

Yep, you have good ole pigweed. Do what others have already suggested and remove it before it drops seeds. The smaller plant/weed looks like Myosotis scorpoides, a.k.a. true forget me not. The flowering stem sort of unrolls like a scorpions tail before the tiny blue flowers open.