fleabane

1. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas (synset 112026125)
   is a 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
   belongs to: genus pulicaria, pulicaria - genus of temperate Old World herbs: fleabane
   same as: feabane mullet, pulicaria dysenterica
2. Any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers;
   Formerly believed to repel fleas (synset 111986096)
   is a type of: wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant
   subtypes:

   • blue fleabane, erigeron acer - widespread weed with pale purple-blue flowers
   • daisy fleabane, erigeron annuus - 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
   • beach aster, erigeron glaucous, 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
   belongs to: erigeron, genus erigeron - cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally
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 (synset 111976817)
   is a type of: weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
   belongs to: conyza, genus conyza - common American weed or wildflower
   same as: canadian fleabane, conyza canadensis, erigeron canadensis, horseweed

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