fleabane

Meanings

Plural: fleabanes

Noun

• hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
• any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
• common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
• in tribe Astereae
• Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
• in tribe Astereae
• Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
• in tribe Inuleae
• Inula spp. (yellowheads)
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
• in tribe Inuleae
• Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
• in tribe Inuleae
• Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
• Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
• Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds).

Synonyms

Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, feabane mullet, horseweed, Pulicaria dysenterica