Definition of Canadian fleabane

1. Noun. Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron.

Exact synonyms: Conyza Canadensis, Erigeron Canadensis, Fleabane, Horseweed
Group relationships: Conyza, Genus Conyza
Generic synonyms: Weed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Canadian Fleabane

Canadian Armed Forces
Canadian Ballet
Canadian English
Canadian Falls
Canadian Forces
Canadian French
Canadian Maritime Provinces
Canadian River
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Canadian Shield
Canadian aspen
Canadian bacon
Canadian capital
Canadian dollar
Canadian dollars
Canadian fleabane
Canadian football
Canadian goldenrod
Canadian goose
Canadian hemlock
Canadian pondweed
Canadian province
Canadian raising
Canadian red pine
Canadian red pines
Canadiana
Canadianise
Canadianism
Canadianisms
Canadianize

Literary usage of Canadian fleabane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"To this inelegant and obscure flowered weed, long known as the Canadian Fleabane (Erigeron canadense), differing so materially from the true ..."

2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1867)
"The oil of erigeron is a volatile oil obtained from the E. Canadense, or Canadian fleabane, a plant officinal in the US Pharmacopoeia. ..."

3. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"The canadian fleabane (Erigeron canadensis) grows abundantly upon every old wall about Bath, and on rocks and walls in that neighbourhood. ..."

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