Name: Christine North East Texas (Zone 7b) Shine Your Light!
Oh, it's no biggie. Sorry your plant didn't turn out to be something nicer. Did it have a scent? I think horseweed grows here, it has a sweet orange scent to me? the flowers never actually open and then it goes to seed with those fluffy heads.
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb