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blanket flower, brown-eyed susan, common blanket-flower, common gaillardia, common Indian blanket, great-flower gaillardia

Arizona blanketflower, Pringle's blanketflower

Habit Perennials (sometimes flowering first year), 20–80 cm. Annuals, 5–40 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).

mostly basal, mostly restricted to proximal 1/5(–1/3+);

petiolar bases 0–2+ cm;

blades oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, 3–6(–9) cm × 5–25 mm, mostly raggedly pinnately lobed, sometimes entire, sparsely to densely villous with jointed hairs.

Peduncles

(5–)20–35+ cm.

5–35 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.

10–13;

corollas yellow to orange, 17–22 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.

40–100+;

corollas yellow, tubes 0.6–0.8 mm, throats campanulate, 2.8–3 mm, lobes deltate, 0.5–0.7 mm, jointed hairs to 0.3 mm.

Phyllaries

24–40+ ovate to lance-attenuate, 10–15+ mm, ciliate with jointed hairs (also strigose and gland-dotted).

14–20, lanceolate to lance-attenuate, 6–12+ mm, ciliate with jointed hairs.

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).

obpyramidal, 2 mm, hairs 2 mm, inserted at bases and on angles and faces;

pappi of 8–10 obovate or ovate to lanceolate, aristate or muticous scales 2–5 mm (if aristate, scarious bases 2–3.5 × 1.3–1.6 mm).

Receptacular

setae 2–6 mm.

setae 0 or 0.3–0.8 mm.

2n

= 34, 68.

= 34.

Gaillardia aristata

Gaillardia arizonica

Phenology Flowering May–Sep. Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Open places, usually among aspens or pines, or with sagebrush, often dry, sandy benches or bars Sandy desert washes and fans
Elevation 200–2900 m [700–9500 ft] 300–1200 m [1000–3900 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
CO; CT; ID; MA; MN; MT; ND; NH; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; SK; YT
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AZ; NV; UT; Mexico (Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 424. FNA vol. 21, p. 426.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Gaillardiinae > Gaillardia Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Gaillardiinae > Gaillardia
Sibling taxa
G. aestivalis, G. amblyodon, G. arizonica, G. coahuilensis, G. multiceps, G. parryi, G. pinnatifida, G. pulchella, G. spathulata, G. suavis
G. aestivalis, G. amblyodon, G. aristata, G. coahuilensis, G. multiceps, G. parryi, G. pinnatifida, G. pulchella, G. spathulata, G. suavis
Synonyms G. arizonica var. pringlei
Name authority Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 573. (1813) A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(2): 353. (1884)
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