Gaillardia / Blanket Flower

This native wildflower is easy to grow, brilliantly colored, offers a variety of sizes, and blooms all summer.  Gaillardia / Blanket Flower is a hardy, drought-tolerant perennial (there are also annual varieties) that's easily sown from seed. Thriving in full sun, Gaillardia / Blanket Flower forms dense colonies of daisy-like flowers from early summer into fall. The blooms, single or double, are usually multi-colored with yellows, reds, and oranges, attracting butterflies, happily living in containers or mass plantings, and gladly adorning vases as cut flowers.