Gaillardia pinnatifida
Gaillardia pulchella
red dome blanketflower, yellow blanket flower
firewheel, firewheel Indian blanket, Indian blanket, indianblanketflower, rosering blanket-flower, sundance
basal and cauline, mostly restricted to proximal 1/3–1/2;
petiolar bases 0–5+ cm;
blades mostly oblanceolate to spatulate, 3–6(–12) cm × 3–18(–30) mm, margins mostly pinnatifid, distal sometimes toothed or entire (rarely all linear, entire), faces closely strigillose to shaggily villous.
cauline;
petiolar bases 0–3+ cm;
blades linear, oblong, or spatulate, 1–5(–12) cm × 4–12(–35) mm, (bases of distal ± clasping) margins usually entire, sometimes toothed or lobed, faces closely strigillose or hirtellous to ± villous (hairs jointed).
(4–)8–25+ cm.
3–10(–20) cm.
0 or 5–14;
corollas usually uniformly yellow, sometimes proximally and/or abaxially reddish, 10–25+ mm.
usually 8–14, rarely 0;
corollas usually reddish to purplish proximally, yellow to orange distally, rarely yellow, reddish, or purplish throughout, 13–30+ mm.
(30–)60–100+;
corollas usually proximally ochroleucous or yellow and distally purplish, rarely wholly yellow, tubes 0.8–1 mm, throats campanulate to plumply urceolate, 3–4.5 mm, lobes broadly deltate to deltate-ovate, 0.5–1 mm, jointed hairs 0.3+ mm.
40–100+;
corollas yellowish to purple or brown, often bicolored, tubes 0.8–1.2 mm, throats campanulate to urceolate, 3–4 mm, lobes deltate to ovate, often attenuate, 1–3+ mm, jointed hairs 0.3+ mm.
20–30, ovate- to lanceolate-attenuate, 7–12+ mm, hispidulous to villous (hairs often jointed).
18–28+, narrowly triangular- to linear-attenuate, 6–14+ mm, usually ciliate with jointed hairs.
obpyramidal, 1–3 mm, hairs 1–2 mm, inserted at bases and on angles and faces;
pappi of 8–11 lanceolate, aristate scales 3–7 mm (scarious bases 1.5–4 × 0.5–1.5 mm).
obpyramidal, 2–2.5 mm, hairs 1.5–2 mm, inserted at bases and on angles;
pappi of 7–8 deltate to lanceolate, aristate scales 4–7 mm (scarious bases 1–2.5 × 0.7–1.3 mm).
setae usually 1–3 mm, rarely wanting.
setae 1.5–3 mm.
= 34.
= 34.
Gaillardia pinnatifida
Gaillardia pulchella
Some plants, especially from Arizona, included here in Gaillardia pinnatifida, have mostly narrow, undivided leaf blades (mostly 3–8+ mm wide, villous to sparsely strigillose; var. linearis) and intergrade with similar plants called G. multiceps, which have sparsely and minutely hispidulous or glabrate leaf blades.
Plants from Utah with yellow disc corollas and densely gland-dotted leaves, included here in Gaillardia pinnatifida, have been recognized as G. flava.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Spring-flowering plants with most of their proximal leaves pinnately lobed or coarsely toothed, mainly found in south-central Texas, have been treated as var. australis (B. L. Turner and M. Whalen 1975). Plants from near or on beaches of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, usually with somewhat fleshy leaves and often persisting for more than one year, have been distinguished as var. picta.
Cultivars of Gaillardia pulchella (or of hybrids between G. pulchella and G. aristata) are used horticulturally.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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