By now the four of us were stumbling through a rolling pasture of daisy fleabane in full bloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber] Reference
As she went she picked a bouquet of wild-flowers -- whatever caught her eye -- fleabane, angelica, tickseed, heal-all. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Grey lichen grew on the cabin logs and dried stalks of horseweed and pigweed and fleabane rose from the snow in the doorways. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
More of the usual suspects in the wildflower department, plus mullein, jewelweed, and Wife informs me that some of the asters are actually fleabane. From Wordnik.com. [50/50] Reference
As many as 30 different species grow, among them Alpine bartsia Bartsia alpina, Alpine bistort Polygonum viviparum, Unalaska fleabane Erigeron humilis and thick-leaved whitlow grass Draba crassifolia. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
Grenthan and several of the hertasi were already constructing a Valdemaran-style community bath house and steam house for them at the edge of the village, and Keisha's gifts of fleabane and rosemary had been greeted with cries of joy from the women. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
Up close they were head-high in a riot of color: red paintbrush, lavender fleabane, hot-pink fireweed, white cow parsnip, lacy green false hellebore, the flashy red of chokecherries, white pearls of baneberry, rich purple huckleberries, fierce yellows of butterweed and arnica. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
Canada fleabane brings from six to eight cents per pound. From Wordnik.com. [Three Acres and Liberty] Reference
The Navajo used fleabane in lotions for body pain and headaches. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Other weeds, like hairy fleabane and horseweed, can adapt to both wet and dry conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Western Farm Press RSS Feed] Reference
In my own country the evening-primroses and Canada fleabane or are examples, and many others could be given. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
A related species, the Philadelphia fleabane (E. philadelphicus), was used by the Houma as a treatment for menstrual problems. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
The day is warm, and the bees are very busy there in that neglected corner of the field, rich in asters, fleabane, and goldenrod. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
Babystars, fleabane, and the aptly name fireweed, post-fire denizens of the vegetation world, had already sprouted and were laying claim to the barren slopes. From Wordnik.com. [News Review - Top Stories] Reference
But most importantly, they were able to explore the prairie on their own, completing a scavenger hunt of plants such as daisy fleabane, black-eyed Susans and milkweed. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen] Reference
A large plant of purslane produces one million two hundred and fifty thousand seeds; a patch of daisy fleabane, three thousand seeds to each square inch of space covered by a plant. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
It was also usual with them during the solemnities to strew their beds with agnus castus, fleabane, and other herbs as were supposed to have the power of expelling amorous inclinations. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference
There was much fleabane -- a plant that deserves to be cherished in these parts, if it be really what its name indicates, but it would have to be extensively cultivated to be a match for the fleas. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
These men are growing seedlings-early blue violet, showy fleabane, cut-leaf microseris-that biologists will use to replant prairie on a large scale on protected land at the Fort Lewis Army base just outside Tacoma. From Wordnik.com. [MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones] Reference
Species characteristic found in salt pannes areas include Bigelow's glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii), common glasswort (S. europea), and perennial glasswort (S. virginica), as well as marsh spearscale (Atriplex patula) and annual salt marsh fleabane (Pluchea purpurascenes). From Wordnik.com. [Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey] Reference
fleabane, and a pink flower that I have no idea what it is. will need to get a picture. From Wordnik.com. [things that are pretty - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson] Reference
Daisy fleabane. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
The Canada fleabane or. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Salt-marsh fleabane. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Daisy-leaved fleabane. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Pink bloom, gold bloom, fleabane white. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference
Non-fragrant flowers that yield honey are those of the raspberry, clematis, sumac, white oak, bugloss, ailanthus, goldenrod, aster, fleabane. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
Leaves: Watercress, sea aster, seabeet, sea purslane, perennial wallrocket, fat hen, water mint and other mints, Canadian fleabane, sow thistle, wood sorrel, common sorrel, ox-eye daisy, sea plantain, marsh samphire (tips), bristly ox-tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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