Formerly believed to repel fleas

Usage examples of fleabane.

However, his keen ears caught the drift of what Hisk and Fleabane were shouting.

They rested, waiting until Fleabane and Findo, who were the advance scouts, returned.

Then she found a patch of fleabane and pulled up several plants to throw on the fire, as an additional deterrent along with ordinary smoke to help keep a small area close to the fire relatively insect free.

Silly things, like hanging the fleabane up to dry, though that is still months away.

Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.

Grey lichen grew on the cabin logs and dried stalks of horseweed and pigweed and fleabane rose from the snow in the doorways.

What do you think of the value of the fleabane, and the daisies, and the yellow five-finger in that field?

For the sake of distinction, it is commonly known as the Blue Fleabane, its flowerheads having a yellow centre, and being surrounded by purplish rays.

Even the common names of wildflowers - stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, blue fleabane, feverfew -have an inescapable enchantment about them.

Along its further side the riparian plants grew thickly, so that it was separated from the river by a kind of hedge of purple loosestrife, great willow herb, fleabane, figwort and hemp agrimony, here and there already in bloom.

Our old authors call it 'Middle Fleabane' - Ploughman's Spikenard being the Great Fleabane.