prairie fleabane

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Noun

prairie fleabane (countable and uncountable, plural prairie fleabanes)

  1. A type of flowering plant of species Erigeron strigosus, native to North America and naturalized in Europe and China.
    Synonyms: daisy fleabane, rough fleabane
    • 1984, Harold E. Grelen, Common Herbaceous Plants of Southern Forest Range, page 97:
      Prairie fleabane, Erigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd. var. strigosus, is also an annual, rarely a biennial. It is a larger plant with larger, more showy flower heads, but is seldom found on grazed southern forest range.
    • 2019 February 12, Elizabeth Letts, “Chapter 18: Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, 1889”, in Finding Dorothy: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 232:
      In the afternoon, when her chores were finished, she wandered along the lane until it petered out, and gathered bunches of bluebells, delicate white yarrow, and purple prairie fleabane.
  2. A type of flowering plant of species Erigeron modestus, native to northern Mexico and south-central United States.
    Synonym: plains fleabane

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