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fleabane

DEFINITIONS OF: fleabane

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n hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas

Synonyms:
Pulicaria dysenterica, feabane mullet
Type of:
herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

n any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

Types:
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Erigeron acer, blue fleabane
widespread weed with pale purple-blue flowers
Erigeron annuus, daisy fleabane
widely naturalized white-flowered North American herb
Erigeron aurantiacus, orange daisy, orange fleabane
mat-forming herb of Turkestan with nearly double orange-yellow flowers
Erigeron divergens, spreading fleabane
well-branched plant with hairy leaves and stems each with a solitary flower head with narrow white or pink or lavender rays; western North America
Erigeron glaucous, beach aster, seaside daisy
slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays; coastal bluffs Oregon to southern California
Erigeron philadelphicus, Philadelphia fleabane
especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada
Erigeron pulchellus, robin's plantain
common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays
Erigeron speciosus, showy daisy
plant having branching leafy stems each branch with an especially showy solitary flower head with many narrow pink or lavender or white rays; northwestern United States mountains
Type of:
wild flower, wildflower
wild or uncultivated flowering plant

n common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

Synonyms:
Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, horseweed
Type of:
weed
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
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