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plural fleabanes
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae quotations
On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 120
in tribe Astereae
Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed) examples
Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane) examples
in tribe Inuleae
Inula spp. (yellowheads) examples
Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds) examples
Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica) examples
Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds). examples