fleabane

noun8

1. •
   Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects.
2. •
   mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae

   • On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A. — 1969
3. •
   Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
4. •
   Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
5. •
   Inula spp. (yellowheads)
6. •
   Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
7. •
   Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)
8. •
   Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds).