Aphelandra squarrosa

Just want to add that I disagree with it being somewhat invasive. I actually think it's fairly invasive. This stuff is growing rather wildly around my area. I frequently see it growing on the sides of roads and in the middle of pastures. Less known to me personally, botanists have been saying that Lantana camara has been cross pollinating with our own native Lantana depressa creating hybrids and rapidly depleting the number of depressa's in the wild.

The leafy one looks like a Senecio. If it has a yello daisy like flower, it is. The spikes one is a Deuterochonia, previously called Abrometiella. Mir is Avery spikey bromeliad, and grows like a succulent rather than like the soft leaved bromeliads.

It grows around Central Texas east of here.Sometimes the cops think it is Marijuana and arrest the people for it. Idiots. IT is an annual so get to it before it seeds.