Definition of Blue fleabane

1. Noun. Widespread weed with pale purple-blue flowers.

Exact synonyms: Erigeron Acer
Generic synonyms: Fleabane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Fleabane

blue disease
blue dome cyst
blue dot sign
blue dwarf
blue elder
blue elderberry
blue eye cod
blue false indigo
blue fever
blue fig
blue films
blue flag
blue flash
blue flashes
blue fleabane (current term)
blue flu
blue flyer
blue fox
blue foxes
blue funk
blue giant
blue giants
blue goose
blue grama
blue green
blue greens
blue gum
blue gums

Literary usage of Blue fleabane

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

1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... blood or for cases of diarrhoea and dropsy. It sells at from six to eight cents a pound. The fresh herb yields oil of fleabane. blue fleabane is common ..."

2. The History of the County of Derby by Stephen Glover (1829)
"The leaves are used in the British herb tobacco acris, blue fleabane, gravelly pastures, July to August, blue Petasites, ..."

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