Habit
Wilhelm Zimmerling PAR, Wikimedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blanket flower
Gaillardia x grandiflora
Also known as: Gaillardia
Family: Asteraceae
30 to 70 cm tall
Borders and edgings in full sun, poor, free-draining soils
Flowering: June – October
Full sun
Hardy to about -20°C depending on the varieties
❓ How do you recognise this plant?
The genus Gaillardia honours a French magistrate and amateur botanist, Gaillard de Charentonneau, and not the vigour of the plant as is sometimes believed.
🍃 Leaves
Alternate, lanceolate, slightly hairy, grey-green
🌸 Flowers
Large flower heads with bicoloured yellow and red-orange ray florets, domed purple centre
🍎 Fruits
Hairy achene topped with a pappus of scales
🪵 Bark
Not applicable — herbaceous plant
🗺️ Distribution
Garden hybrid from crosses between North American species (Gaillardia aristata and G. pulchella)
🐝 Value for pollinators
Very attractive to bees, bumblebees and butterflies; long flowering period
✂️ Horticultural uses
Flower borders, dry edgings and rock gardens; tolerates drought well
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