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Fleabane

noun
1.
Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.  Synonyms: feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica.
2.
Any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas.
3.
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.



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"Fleabane" Quotes from Famous Books



... "radiate," and the negative ones "discoid." Discoid forms of the ordinary camomile, of the daisy, of some asters (Aster Tripolium), and of some centauries have been described. Radiate forms have been observed in the tansy (Tanacetum vulgare), the common horse-weed or Canada fleabane (Erigeron canadensis) and the common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris). Taken broadly the negative varieties seem to be somewhat more numerous than the positive ones, but it is very difficult to come to a ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... given, the only ones that the bees procure nectar from, so far as I have observed, are arbutus, dicentra, sugar maple, locust, and linden. Non-fragrant flowers that yield honey are those of the raspberry, clematis, sumac, bugloss, ailanthus, goldenrod, aster, fleabane. A large number of odorless plants yield pollen to the bee. There is nectar in the columbine, and the bumblebee sometimes gets it by piercing the spur from the outside, as she does with the dicentra. There ought to be honey in the honeysuckle, but I have never seen the hive bee ...
— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs


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