fleabane

n 1: hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers

reputed to destroy or drive away fleas [syn: {feabane

mullet}, {Pulicaria dysenterica}]

2: any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron

having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

3: common North American weed with linear leaves and small

discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized

throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus

Erigeron [syn: {horseweed}, {Canadian fleabane}, {Conyza

canadensis}, {Erigeron canadensis}]