Common names:
Robin's plantain, Philadelphia fleabane
Family:
Scientific name:
Erigeron philadelphicus
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered locations in south and southwest England, especially around Bristol; an introduced species, originally from North America
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Waste ground, roadsides, old walls
Flowers:
Flat-topped clusters of up to 35 heads, which have up to 250 very narrow, linear ray florets (up to 10 mm long), coloured white to pale pink, around a similar number of yellow disc florets. Phyllaries are in 2 or 3 rows, usually hairy, and minutely glandular
Leaves:
Oblanceolate at the base, usually withering at the flowering stage, and lanceolate on the stem, persistent. Up to 11 cm long, with irregularly toothed or shallowly lobed margins and a sparse covering of short hairs. On hairy, ridged stems
Season:
May to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
