Blanket Flower Gaillardia Grandiflora

Flowerheads get 3 to 4 in diameter and come in red yellow orange burgundy or a mix of above colors.

Blanket flower gaillardia grandiflora. Grandiflora forms mounds and grows to 3 high and wide. It was named after maître gaillard de charentonneau an 18th century french magistrate who was an enthusiastic botanist. Best cultivated in full sun in well drained soil. The genus gaillardia commonly known as blanket flower produces large daisy shaped flowers with petals featuring multiple colors usually red orange and yellow.

Lollipops is a good bicoloured dwarf version. The most commonly grown species. The flowers seemed to remind people of brightly colored native american blankets and many started calling them indian blanket flower. Gaillardia x grandiflora are hybrids of g.

However some authorities suggest that the name blanket flower was originally in reference to the habit of wild species plants to form colonies which blanketed the ground. Tolerates heat cold dryness. Both annual and perennial. The plant earned its botanical name from eighteenth century french magistrate m.

Gaillardia is also known commonly as blanket flower a reference to the bright and vivid colors reminiscent of the traditional textile patterns of certain groups of native americans. The cultivar lorenziana double mixed is a mix of cream yellow orange crimson and multi coloured blooms. Gaillardia ɡeɪˈlɑːrdiə common name blanket flower is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family asteraceae native to north and south america. The gaillardia flower has very vibrant and bold colors in red yellow and orange with a blanket like quilted look from which it gets its common name.

Gaillardia pulchella has grey green leaves with large single or double flowers from july october. The plant grows from about 15 to a maximum height of 3 feet. Gaillardia also known as blanket flower is an easy to grow short lived perennial with richly colored daisy like flowers. Will blanket flower take over my flower bed.

Gaillardia aristata and gaillardia pulchella randomly cross bred in a garden in belgium back in the 1800 s to produce gaillardia grandiflora blanket flower. Genus name honors gaillard de charentonneau a french magistrate and patron of botany. It is a cross between two species in the gaillardia genus. There are over two dozen species in the gaillardia genus and most are native to some area of north america.

A beautiful perennial that is widely grown today in gardens.