| Description | An ever-blooming Gaillardia with marmalade orange-brown daisy like flower. |
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| Pronunciation | (gah-LARD-ee-uh) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full, to much shade and they tend to flop |
| Moisture | average to dry, drought resistant once established |
| Soil & Site | average, well drained, prone to rot in poorly drained soil |
| Temperature | tolerates the heat |
| Flowers | 4 inch marmalade-orange-brown daisy like flowers on sturdy stalks, blooms for most of the summer, attracts butterflies |
| Leaves | simple, lanceolate to linear basal leaves |
| Stems | forms a thick short stem |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Dimensions | 16-18 inches tall, space 12 inches on center |
| Maintenance | dead heading, weeding out unwanted volunteer seedlings, division to maintain vigor |
| Propagation | seeds, divide carefully by cutting in half the thick short stem |
| Native Site | Species native to North and South America. |
| Cultivar Origin | Developed by Jellito Seeds of Germany. |
| Misc Facts | Named after M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was a patron of botany. |
| Author's Notes | I garden in zone #5 where Gaillardia are short lived. I don't even consider them perennial. The best Gaillardia plantings I have seen are where the plants have reseeded. Most of the Gaillardias are cultivars and may revert back to some other forms, especially in later generations. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage) , #54-The Well Tended Garden (DiSabato-Aust) #73-The Harrowsmiths Perennial Gardens |
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