Index / Search / Gaillardia pulchella
§1 Plant
Gaillardia pulchella Foug.
vernacular Indian blanket — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Gaillardia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 467 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 32 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 7–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 238,144
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 467 counties across 29 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Hernando 12053
- Indian River 12061
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 61 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Chase 20017
- Clark 20025
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Lyon 20111
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osage 20139
- Osborne 20141
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Washington 20201
- Wichita 20203
- Wilson 20205
Louisiana view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Red River 22081
- St. Tammany 22103
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Beaver 40007
- Beckham 40009
- Blaine 40011
- Bryan 40013
- Caddo 40015
- Canadian 40017
- Carter 40019
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Custer 40039
- Dewey 40043
- Ellis 40045
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Harper 40059
- Jackson 40065
- Jefferson 40067
- Johnston 40069
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Love 40085
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Okfuskee 40107
- Oklahoma 40109
- Osage 40113
- Pontotoc 40123
- Roger Mills 40129
- Texas 40139
- Tillman 40141
- Tulsa 40143
- Washington 40147
- Washita 40149
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
South Carolina view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 177 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Andrews 48003
- Aransas 48007
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Austin 48015
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Borden 48033
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Cass 48067
- Chambers 48071
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Cochran 48079
- Coke 48081
- Coleman 48083
- Collin 48085
- Collingsworth 48087
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Cooke 48097
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dallas 48113
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- Eastland 48133
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Fisher 48151
- Frio 48163
- Gaines 48165
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hall 48191
- Hamilton 48193
- Hansford 48195
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hartley 48205
- Haskell 48207
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hill 48217
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hunt 48231
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jack 48237
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Lee 48287
- Liberty 48291
- Lipscomb 48295
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- Matagorda 48321
- Maverick 48323
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Midland 48329
- Milam 48331
- Mills 48333
- Montague 48337
- Montgomery 48339
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Panola 48365
- Parker 48367
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Real 48385
- Reeves 48389
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- Rusk 48401
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Tyler 48457
- Uvalde 48463
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Ward 48475
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Wharton 48481
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Winkler 48495
- Wise 48497
- Yoakum 48501
- Young 48503
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GAPU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5387821 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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