Michaelmas daisy

English right|thumb|Michaelmas daisy (Aster amellus species) flowers Aster amellus Noun en botany Any of several species and hybrids of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae family, particularly in the genera Aster or Symphyotrichum genus; a flower of any such plant. from 18th c. chapter 12 He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive. en 1976 w:Angela Carter The Mother Lode Shaking a Leg Vintage 2013 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. Translations Aster amellus Finnish: fi elokuunasteri French: fr marguerite de la Saint-Michel f German: de Berg-Aster f Latin: la amellus m Welsh: cy blodyn Mihangel m, cy ffarwel haf m f See also Aster amellus species Further reading Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 1 en Astereae tribe plants