favicon
Wildflower Identification Website
Search for wildflowers by location, color, shape and time
Click here for Instructions
Login
firewheel
Gaillardia pulchella
Gaillardia pulchella
firewheel Aster Family
Gaillardia pulchella Asteraceae
--more--
common names
  firewheel
  Indian blanket
  Indianblanketflower
  sundance
accepted scientific name
  Gaillardia pulchella Foug.
rules for finding collection records
  Gaillardia pulchella (41)
family name
  • Asteraceae
Image Author: ©2005 Max Licher, downloaded from SEINet
Image License: Author's permission
Image Source Image Source
Category: Wildflowers
Flowers: Many petals
Petal colors: color color color
Flower size is 1.5 to 3. inches
Number of ray petals: 8 to 20
Leaf: Alternate
Plant Observed 2nd week of November thru 3rd week of August
Native to North America. Naturalized in Hawaii.

How Likely at this Location (14%)
Name Match (100%)
Plant Showiness (81%)
where plant found
mag select

Sand
Grassland
Brush
Wetland
Salt Marsh
Rocky
Riparian
Meadow
Forest
grid lines base


Names

Accepted Scientific Name

Gaillardia pulchella   Foug.   (TSN: 37410, Index: 814)


Scientific Names used to access collection records



To remove a rule, make the line blank.
To enter two rules in a box put a comma between them.

Common Names






To remove a name, make the line blank. To add multiple names on one line put a comma between them. Do not capitalize the words in common names unless they are a person or place. (Bad: Pink Rose) (Good: Pink's rose)

Family Names