Gaillardia pulchella (Indian Blanket)

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Common Name:  Indian Blanket

Attracts:  Bees, Butterflies, Birds

Use:  Annual for Naturalizing in the cottage garden, self-seeds in drier soils

Light:  Full Sun

Hardiness Zone:  2 to 11   USDA Zone Map

Soils:  Dry to Medium

Flower Time:  June to frost

Flower Color:  Red with Yellow

Height:  1' -1.5'

Notes:  Gaillardia pulchella, Indian Blanket, is a showy, self-seeding annual with large daisy-like, red flowers lasting the whole summer, attracting lots of bumblebees.  Leave the flower-heads to encourage reseeding and feeding the birds.  Noted as deer-resistant by UVM.

Host plant of VT Bee Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN):
Bombus pensylvanicus (American Bumble bee)

Naturalized in Northeastern US and native to Midwest and most of the Southern US:   Biota of North America Program (BONAP) – North American Plant Atlas (NAPA).