Michaelmas daisy

Michaelmas daisy (plural Michaelmas daisies)

1. Aster amellus, a flowering plant; a flower of the plant. [from 18th c.]
   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 12:

     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.