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Flower
Blanket Flower
Gaillardia pulchella
Texas native with fiery red-and-yellow daisies. Loves heat and poor soil.
Recommended uses
- Wildflower areas
- Xeriscapes
- Pollinator gardens
- Plant type
- Annual flower
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Deciduous
- Sun
- Full sun
- Shade tolerance
- Low
- Water needs
- Low
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- Red, Yellow, Orange
- Mature height
- 1–2 ft
- Mature width
- 1–2 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- High