Michaelmas daisy

English

Michaelmas daisy (Aster amellus) flowers

Michaelmas daisy (plural Michaelmas daisies)

Aster amellus, a flowering plant; a flower of the plant. [from 18th c.]
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:
  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 2013, p. 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.

Aster amellus