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Beautiful blooms of the butterfly attractor Gaillardia grandiflora or Indian Blanket

Gaillardia grandiflora or Blanket Flower

Family:  Asteraceae
Origin:  Native of Oklahoma State, USA
Light: Full sun
Height:   2-3'
Spacing:   2-3'
Blooms:  3-4" diameter flowerhead, red and orange with yellow fringe, in Spring
Foliage:  Green, fuzzy
Soil:  Well-drained, sandy, poor
Water:  Drought tolerant
Propagation:  Seeds, division
Uses:  Xeriscaping, borders, rock garden, meadow setting
Comments:   Gaillardia grandiflora or Indian Blanket or Blanket Flower is a beautiful perennial with a mound-forming growth habit.  In Spring it produces eye-catching blossoms that attract numerous bees and butterflies especially the Red Admiral and Clouded Sulphur butterflies feast on the nectar of the Blanket Flower. Gaillardia grandiflora is easily propagated from seeds or divisions.  It is tolerant of both heat and cold.  Every year in Spring the Indian Blanket plants are the first to emerges from my garden.  Gaillardia grandiflora really brighten up an otherwise gloomy looking garden at this time of the year.  I leave the seedheads on the plants so the following year they return with many plants.  It self readily and are carefree and low maintenance.  Gaillardia grandiflora is not picky of soil type and is drought tolerant therfore it makes an excellent xeriscaping plant.  Mass plant in the rock garden or borders or in a meadow setting or in a wild flower garden for a colorful display.  They are terrific traffic stoppers.  
Interesting note:  Indian Blanket flower was adopted as the official state wildflower of Oklahoma State on May 7, 1986.
USDA Hardiness Zones :  4-10

Gaillardia grandiflora naturalizes easily in the dry landscape

Gaillardia grandiflora is happy around Century Plants