Common name: Blanketflower, Indian Blanket, Showy Gaillardia
Family: Asteraceae
Size: Up to 60 cm tall
Description: Upright to sprawling, hairy
Habitat: Several soils, likes sun and shade
Flower:
- 4-5.5 cm across
- Ray flowers 6-15, red with yellow tips,
- 3-lobed at tip, wide-spreading
- Disk flowers numerous, red or brown
- Heads solitary at tips of long slender stalks
Leaves and stem:
- Leaves 2-8.5 cm long
- Wide, alternate, short-stalked or stalkless
- Clasping basally
- Margins entire to toothed or lobed
- Stems usually much-branched, becoming woody at base late in season
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