What is this plant?

[hellolittleduck]

Looks a bit tree-ish to me?

It looks like a sycamore sapling. Have a look on google images to see if that looks right.

Is it in your garden? If so, unless you have a very big garden, I would remove it.

It's a self-sown sycamore on a quest for world domination, so you need to get rid of it sooner rather than later.

Yes, definitely Sycamore. I keep getting them here but they’re always in an inconvenient place so have to come out.

Even if you wanted a tree, you wouldn't want sycamore. They are full of aphids in the summer and if you put anything underneath one it will get covered with sticky honeydew. They are horrible and not a British native tree.

Oh dear 🤦🏼‍♀️

Better get to removing it then.

I completely agree if you find yourself in the vicinity of one or more sycamores expect a large amount of seedlings 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱Don’t let it get so big that you can’t did it out as cutting it off at ground level will only result in new shoots. 👩‍🌾

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Article here about Ash and Sycamore growing in complementary cycles. With ash dieback likely to remove most of our ash trees, we may have to rethink our attitudes to sycamore.

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Sycamores are ok in the right place, but they get too big for normal gardens and it's far too near those (rather crumbly looking) walls for any tree.

They have a tap root and can be difficult to pull out when they get that big. Something I found effective in my last garden was to cut them down to about three inches and then peel back the remaining bark.