Gaillardia multiceps

Gaillardia multiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Gaillardia
Species: G. multiceps
Binomial name
Gaillardia multiceps
Greene 1897
Synonyms[1]
  • Gaillardia multiceps var. microcephala B.L.Turner

Gaillardia multiceps, onion blanketflower,[2] is a North American species of flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas).[3]

Gaillardia multiceps grows in gypseous soils, including sand dunes. It is an perennial herb or subshrub up to 45 cm (18 in) tall, with leaves on the stem rather than clustered around the base. Each flower head is on its own flower stalk up to 55 cm (22 in) long. Each head has 8 red ray flowers surrounding 80-100 disc flowers, yellow with purple tips.[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List, Gaillardia multiceps Greene
  2. ↑ "Gaillardia multiceps". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ↑ Flora of North America, Gaillardia multiceps Greene, 1897.
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