Fall wildflowers - what are these?

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So I went out this weekend and took pics of some of the neat wildflowers that I saw. Who can tell me what they are? Ready----GO! :D

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#1 Spring Beauty
#2 Henbit
#3 I thought milk vetch (but the folage seems wrong) Maybe Yellow Locoweed
#4 I am leaning towards Garlic Mustard (very invasive) or wild radish or chickweed.

Pretty pics , don't you love spring? :)
 
#1 is my favorite so far. I didn't realize it had the pink veins until I got close with my camera. I also like the fuzzy leaves of the henbit. I noticed a few more today, so I'll have to take some more pics! Thanks for the help identifying them.
 
I went for a walk in the woods by the creek with my grand daughters today and saw spring beauty, trillium, dutchman's breeches, blood root, violets, trout lily, may apple, and another one or two I couldn't identify.
 
The bulbs on the bottom of Spring beauties are great in soup although tiny. They have a mild garlicky flavor.
 
Wow, those are beautiful.

The wildflower spring show is just starting here with the Dodecatheum Shooting Stars first.
Calypso Orchids and Erythronium Trout Lilies are still in low bud stage.

We have 3 or 4 kinds of Calichortus Mariposa Tulips that will be in late May. One I'm not sure is Calichortus.

There are Spicata Veronica, some kind of Scophulariaceae wild open Snapdragon that's very rare, Godetia, Several Monkey Flowers, a wild ragged Pink, Sticky Geraniums, Several Lupines including a subdwarf and a large stately yellow one that looks like a wild relative of the domesticated ones, Wild Fuchsia, real turban Lilies, Alliums, 3 kinds of Iris one of which is a teeny subdwarf that I know from one single plant. I spotted a pink flowering Strawberry last year in the woods. Regular wild Strawberry, Blackberry, and the forest Blackberry that I never see fruit on. Those are ultra thorny. I put a youngster into my garden just to see if it'll eventually make fruit, right next to a tame thornless blackberry...
 
Some more I found yesterday:

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This one is fuzzy all over. I'm not sure if it's going to bloom, or if that's it.

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Sorry, this one is sideways. It's much prettier when it grows in the woods than when it's in my garden.

Anyone know what these are?
 
#3 is pussytoes, thats it for the bloom, but it will stay forever that way - great dried flower! I really like #2, not sure what it is
 

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