Blanketflower
Gaillardia aristata
The perennial blanketflower, spinning out big red-and-gold daisies all summer. Parent of countless hybrids but tougher and longer-lived than any of them.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- red, yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- CA, CO, CT, ID, MA, MN, MT, ND, NH, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY
Related native plants
More Gaillardia species
- Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)
- Pincushion Daisy (Gaillardia suavis)
- Red Dome Blanketflower (Gaillardia pinnatifida)
- Arizona Blanketflower (Gaillardia arizonica)