| Scientific Name: | Gaillardia cvs. |
| Common Name: | blanket flower |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Irregular, Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Branching hairs, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Entire, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, sessile, most lanceolate-oblanceolate, 10-20cm long x 2-4cm wide, light gray-green, lanceolate, margin entire or lobed, pubescent; flower head with flat or funnel-shaped sterile ray florets, most 4-8cm wide; fruit is a fuzzy ball of achenes. | |