How to Identify Blanket Flower (Gaillardia)
This is a Blanket Flower it is a perennial that blooms in the Summer and Fall. It has a round growth habit.
The stems are a green to purple in color. They are unbranched and hairy.
The lower leaves are tooth or pinnately lobed. They oblanceolate to spatulate in shape. The upper leaves are sessile to the stem. They are oblong or oblanceolate in shape and have small hairs.
The flower has involucre green bracts. The disk flowers are yellow in color with red tips. The ray flowers are often red with yellow tips. The colors are similar to those used by Native American to wave blankets Which is where it gets another common name of Indian Blanket. The ray flower can also be solid red or yellow. It has one flower per stem.
Blanket Flowers prefer full sun with most soils. It can withstand hot winds and droughts.
6 мар 2023
