Gaillardia aristata |
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blanket flower, brown-eyed susan, common blanket-flower, common gaillardia, common Indian blanket, great-flower gaillardia |
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Habit | Perennials (sometimes flowering first year), 20–80 cm. |
Leaves | basal and cauline or cauline; petiolar bases 5–15 cm; blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 5–15 cm × 5–30(–40) mm, margins raggedly pinnately lobed to toothed or entire, faces scabrellous and/or sparsely to densely villous (hairs jointed). |
Peduncles | (5–)20–35+ cm. |
Ray florets | (6–)12–18+; corollas yellow or yellow/purple, rarely tubular and 5-lobed, usually distally laminate and 3-lobed, 15–35+ mm. |
Disc florets | 60–120+; corollas usually purple or purple-tipped, sometimes yellow, tubes 0.5–1.5 mm, throats cylindric to urceolate, 4.5–5.5 mm, lobes lance-ovate to triangular-attenuate, 1–2 mm, jointed hairs 0.3+ mm. |
Phyllaries | 24–40+ ovate to lance-attenuate, 10–15+ mm, ciliate with jointed hairs (also strigose and gland-dotted). |
Cypselae | clavate (outer) to obpyramidal (inner), 2.5–6 mm, hairs 1.5–2.5 mm, inserted at bases; pappi of 8 ovate to lanceolate, aristate scales 5–6 mm (scarious bases 1.5–3 × 0.4–1.5 mm). |
Receptacular | setae 2–6 mm. |
2n | = 34, 68. |
Gaillardia aristata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. |
Habitat | Open places, usually among aspens or pines, or with sagebrush, often dry, sandy benches or bars |
Elevation | 200–2900 m [700–9500 ft] |
Distribution |
CO; CT; ID; MA; MN; MT; ND; NH; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; SK; YT
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 424. |
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Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 573. (1813) |
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