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Gaillardia amblyodon
Also called Texas Sand Blanketflower, Texas Sand Firewheel
Maroon blanketflower is a small annual wildflower native to sandy, sunny sites in Texas, with red or purple ray flowers around yellow centers. Give it full sun and well-drained sandy soil, and let it self-seed.
Gaillardia amblyodon, the lanceleaf blanketflower or maroon blanketflower, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family. It has been found only in the state of Texas in the south-central United States.
Gaillardia amblyodon grows in open, sunlit locations on sandy soils. It is an annual herb up to 45 cm (18 in) tall with leafy stems. Each flower head is on its own flower stalk up to 15 cm (5.9 in) long. Each head has 8-12 red or purple (rarely yellow) ray flowers surrounding 30-60 disc flowers (yellow with purple tips). The species appears to be closely related to the more widespread G. pulchella.
Lanceleaf blanketflower · Common gaillardia · Arizona blanketflower · Bandanna daisy · Blanket Flower · Gaillardia henricksonii · Onion blanketflower · Parry's blanketflower · Red dome blanketflower · Firewheel · Lanceleaf Blanketflower · Western blanketflower
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaillardia amblyodon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
