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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.
Group relationships: Conyza, Genus Conyza
Generic synonyms: Weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canadian Fleabane
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. ..."