ask grandma j

Name That Tune  Bloom

****Update****

Thank you all for your input on my mystery weed flower....which turns out to be a weed afterall.   While it really is a weed, and an invasive one that's hard to get rid of....according to many of you, it is a distant relative of the Morning glory.   If there were a prize to be given out, it would go to Jen who sent me a link with pictures of all five zillion weedy wildflowers in Texas. 

This is the photo that won...the flowering weed is Purple Bindweed.

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As you know, there aren't too many old farts  tennants living here at the Spa yet.   So when Grandma J goes walking down through the far end of the  property....she sees a bunch of weeds and other wild stuff growing all over the place.   It is like a ghost town down there except the ghosts haven't found it yet. 

It's not just a matter of vacancies....it seems construction pulled out with most of these buildings unfinished on the inside.   Money problems?   Who knows, but the landscaping isn't in and anything growing isn't something that was intentional by design.

There is this flowering stuff growing like crazy across concrete walkways and driveways.    I think it's kind of pretty...and of course it's very drought resistant since we don't get rain around here

Thel blossoms are a nice shade of purple, or would that be lavender.  If there is a fragrance, I wouldn't know because I don't get close enough to smell them.   If this is a poisonous flowering vine, I don't want to find out the hard way.

I have looked high and low for some answers.  High being glancing towards the heavens for a divine answer, and low....well, low would be the anals of the internet.  I've searched the following: Texas flowering vines,  wild Texas flowering vines, poisonous Texas vines,  pretty Texas weeds.   I've scrutinized the bazillion photos that pop up but nothing looks like this vine of mine.    I made that part up because it rhymned.

My question is this.  What you ask?  You didn't know there was a question?   Yea, there is.  So, who amonst the three of you can tell me what this is?  Can I touch it, will it make me sick?  Should I take some home and plant it in a pot? Maybe chop it up to put in my soup?  Who knows?