#Fleabane #Erigeron #annuus is an #invasive #neophyte in #Europe, originally mative from Canada to Florida (USA). It arrived in Europe and #Asia as an ornamental plant in the 18th century and became naturalized.
C. Wang et al. (2020) studied it in China finding one #alienspecies be able to "generate a #favorable" #speciescommunity #habitat that is beneficial for following ones, using #Solidago #canadensis as 2nd alien.
©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137128
#Photos
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Fleabane flowers I also saw out in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #forests #nature #fleabane #shingdaginholllow #stateforest #upstateny #flower
I declare, you will hence be known as 'fringe daisies'!