1. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
   "They hung dried fleabane in their cottage"; "Fleabane mullet was traditionally planted near kennels"; "They hung dried common fleabane in their cottage";
   - fleabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica, common fleabane
    
2. Any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
   "Fleabane grew abundantly in the meadow"
    
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
   "Canadian fleabane sprouted in the untended garden";
   - horseweed, Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis

Derived forms: fleabanes

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, weed, wild flower, wildflower

Part of: Conyza, Erigeron, genus Conyza, genus Erigeron, genus Pulicaria, Pulicaria

Encyclopedia: Fleabane