A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Lots of tiny buds

What's this very tall weed all over my ditch, with these buds I'm just now starting to notice?

Whole plant-


Near the bottom-


And the top-

no guesses on this one yet?

Is it fuzzy? It kinda looked that way from the pics but I wasn't sure. If it is, I believe it's a terrible weed (don't remember the name) and, seeing as it's going to flower now, you're likely to be stuck with it for several years-and expect more next year from the seed spread. I got curious last year and let one or two go to flower. They really didn't do much, but now this year I have them EVERYWHERE, so I've been trying to pull them as soon as I see them.

The only defense is pulling. You know its got to be a weed because they need little care and grow so quickly. I get them too but only in the areas I don't regularly visit(behind the shed, around the AC unit, etc) I have my own name for this plant but wouldn't post it here because it would fall into a whole group of plants I call $##@%&*$@#!!%weeds! LOL

I would like to see it again,
once it fully opens though!!!!

It looks like one of the ones I took from a curb yesterday and planted in front of a fence on a slope.