prairie fleabane

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.
   • 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.1984, Harold E. Grelen, Common Herbaceous Plants of Southern Forest Range, page 97
   • 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.2019 February 12, Elizabeth Letts, “Chapter 18: Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, 1889”, in Finding Dorothy: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 232

   Synonyms:

   daisy fleabane, rough fleabane

2. A type of flowering plant of species Erigeron modestus, native to northern Mexico and south-central United States.

   Synonyms:

   plains fleabane