Michaelmas daisy

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Michaelmas daisy (Aster amellus) flowers
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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.
    • 1913, D H 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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