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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Asteraceae
Gaillardia aristata Pursh
common blanket-flower, common gaillardia
Gaillardia: after M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate and patron of botany
aristata: bearded, furnished with awns; bristly
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| Status: | Introduced - escaped |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 8"-28" tall, hairy forb |
| Flower: | head 1 1/2"- 3" wide with 6-16 yellow, 1"- 1 1/3" long, 3-notched rays often with purplish/orange base; 1/2"-1" wide, purplish/orange disk; inflorescence usually 1 to a few heads on long stalks; blooms May-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry seed without a fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, mostly narrow |
| Habitat: | sun; meadows, fields |
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