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Daisy Fleabane: Does It Get Rid of Fleas?

Posted by on Jul 11, 2014 in flowers, summer, Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Daisy Fleabane: Does It Get Rid of Fleas?

Well, no. Unfortunately this is a classic case of false advertising. This plant, called daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus), is neither a daisy nor the bane of fleas. It’s a nice little meadow flower–one of the few native plants that can elbow its way in between more aggressive non-native clovers and daylilies along roads and byways. It isn’t the same as a daisy, and it isn’t an aster, although they’re all related–all those plants with a fringe of white rays around a yellow center are cousins in the enormous Aster family. Regular daisies (ox-eye daisies, as...

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