Blanket flower
ഗെയ്ലാർഡിയ പുൽചെല്ല
Gaillardia pulchella Foug.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 28 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Firewheel, Rose-ring blanket-flower, Fiesta Flower, Indian blanket
Formerly Calonnea pulcherrima, Gaillardia bicolor, Gaillardia drummondii, Gaillardia lobata, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. U.S.A. to N. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 61 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2 ft; Wikipedia 60–60 cm
- Spread
- 25 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension brown, orange, purple, red, yellow; Wikipedia orange, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Girasol rojo
- root
- GAIPUL
- French
- Gaillarde jolie, Gaillarde mignonne
- Czech
- kokarda sličná
- Chinese
- 天人菊
- Russian
- Гайярдия красивая, Гайлардия красивая
- Japanese
- テンニンギク
- Catalan
- Gallàrdia
- Estonian
- nägus mõrsjalill
- Lithuanian
- Puošnioji gailiardija
- Swedish
- sommarkokardblomster
- Chinese (China)
- 天人菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Gaillardia pulchella (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.