Indian Blanket-flower
Gaillardia pulchella
It grows wild in 8 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to average soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 11 in wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, purple and red
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 12 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 38 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Sweat bee (Halictus poeyi), Green sweat bee (Agapostemon splendens), Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens), Long-horned bee (Epimelissodes petulcus)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sundrops
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Bird's-foot VioletFacts from the Quercus record for Gaillardia pulchella.