Michaelmas daisy

English
Michaelmas daisy (Aster amellus) flowers

Noun

Michaelmas daisy (plural Michaelmas daisies)

  1. (botany) Any of several species and hybrids of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, particularly in the genera Aster or Symphyotrichum; a flower of any such plant. [from 18th c.]
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
      He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive.
    • 1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 3:
      There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil.

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See also

Aster amellus

Symphyotrichum novi-belgii

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