This is a weedy composite next to the road. Small Yellow Rays are present Pappus of capillary bristles Plant herbaceous
Are those rays, indeed? If so, it should not be Chrysothamnus. The closest to it with ray florets is Chrysoma. http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=107019 http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=106996 Also the two pictures look somehow different. Do they belong to same species?
Thanks. I went back to the flower I collected and looked at the pappus closer. It wasn't as I described it above. It was of hyaline paleae -- lanceolate. The costa is prolonged into an awn which made me think of capillary bristles. The clincher is that the achenes are obpyramidal. The plant is a common plant as I suspected: Hymenothrix Wislizeni.