Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A perennial plant (Conoclinium coelestinum) in the composite family, native to eastern North America, having corymbs of small blue flowers.
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- noun rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium
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Examples
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The blue mistflower can be aggressive, but I love the color it brings in the fall, then tear much of it out, but not all.
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The main weed species being targeted in Northland are wild ginger (Hedychium garderianum), cord grass (Spartina alterniflora), mistflower (Ageratina riparia), and wandering Jew (Tradescantia fluminensis).
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(In the photo above, Indigo Spires is mingling with spinach that is going to seed) (Blue mistflower, or Eupatorium (Conoclinium) beginning to bloom.)
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The mistflower is more blue than purple, but it sort of works when Purple Heart, Lion's Tail and Lamb's Ears are in the mix.
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The butterflies, busy chowing down, could be seen Monday from a distance, flittering in and out of the Gregg's mistflower planted in the butterfly garden at Temple College.
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"Faves in Divas of the Dirt gardens: Oxblood lilies; Gregg's mistflower; Mexican oregano;
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