What is the meaning of Fleabane?

Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:

  1. mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
    1. in tribe Astereae
      1. Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
      2. Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
    2. in tribe Inuleae
      1. Inula spp. (yellowheads)
      2. Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
      3. Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)
  2. Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds).

mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae

  1. in tribe Astereae
    1. Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
    2. Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
  2. in tribe Inuleae
    1. Inula spp. (yellowheads)
    2. Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
    3. Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)

in tribe Astereae

  1. Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
  2. Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)

Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)

Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)

in tribe Inuleae

  1. Inula spp. (yellowheads)
  2. Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
  3. Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)

Inula spp. (yellowheads)

Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)

Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)

Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds).

Source: wiktionary.org

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