One of the advantages of having horticulture as a hobby is that escaped ‘aliens’ can often be recognised (along with an ability to tell the difference between ‘weed’ seedlings and those of desirable ornamentals).
Several plants of Mexican Fleabane (Erigeron karvinskianus), a narrow-leaved, narrow-rayed daisy, were noticed along Worrall Road and in Sutherland Place, upper Clifton. There was a large clump in flower outside a disused door on a side-track off the latter.
When the Flora of the Bristol Region was published in 2000 there were only 8 records, and none within the city boundary.
I think it will become very frequent quite quickly.
One of its more prominent haunts is on the steps over the road from the Council House that lead down to Frogmore Street. It’s also in cracks in the pavement around a café on Henleaze Road.
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