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* Latin Name: ''Gaillardia'' ''aristata''
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* Scientific Name: ''Gaillardia'' ''aristata''
 
* Family: Asteraceae
 
* Family: Asteraceae
 
* Common Names: blanket flower, great flowered gaillardia
 
* Common Names: blanket flower, great flowered gaillardia

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  • Scientific Name: Gaillardia aristata
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Common Names: blanket flower, great flowered gaillardia
  • Codon: GALARI
Photo by Ben Legler, 2004, also featured on Main Page

Taxonomy

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Viridiplantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Spermatophytina
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Gaillaridia Foug.
Species: Gaillardia aristata Pursh

[1]

Description

Native, herbaceous taprooted perennial, with one or several stems rising from the base.[2] 1-3 dms tall.[3]

Leaves are alternate, rough-hairy, lance-shaped, entired to lobed, rarely pinnately divided.[2]

Capitate inflorescence bearing yellow rays, often maroon at base, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, disk corollas purplish. Receptacle concex to subglobose, with chaffy bristles that do not subtend the individual florets. [4]

Aristata derived from Latin arist, bristle, in reference to the hairy stems and leaves, and the bristled fruits.[2]

Fruit is a one-seeded, gray-brown achene, 7-10mm inch long, with densely ascending hairs, a short pappus crown 7-10mm long, and awns approximately two times as long as the fruit body.[2]

Bloom Period

May - September[5]

Distribution

From south-central Canada to southern Colorado, east to the Dakotas and west to the Cascade Mountains of Washington and the Blue Mountains of Oregon.[2]

Habitat

Sunny, well-drained sites in prairie meadows up to montane grassy openings.[3]

Uses

Medicine and Food

A rich array of medicinal uses, including but not limited to the following

Sx̌ʷyʔiɬpx use of whole plant decoction as a tonic for kidney ailments, poultice of plant applied for backaches, decoction of plant for headaches.[6]

Nlaka'pamux use of infusion of whole plant as a treatment for cancer. [7] It is important to note that depending on the time of the source and the orientation of the researcher, the term 'cancer' in medical and ethnobotanical texts may refer to a variety of conditions, that may or may not overlap neatly with common contemporary usage of the word.

Nlaka'pamux use of decoction of plant as a tuberculosis remedy.[7]

Havsuw' Baaja use as food, seeds parched, ground, and kneaded into seed butter.[8]

A rash or irritation may result from contact with the sap.[3]

Ecological

G. aristata can be used in producing native wildflower sod for restoration of native plant colonies.[2]

Provides food source of pollen, nectar, and cover for a wide variety of pollinators. It is a common nectar source for the adult stage of the butterfly, Edwards fritillary, Speyeria edwards. [2]

A cryptic moth, Schinia masoni, is color-camouflaged to mimic the yellow ray flowers and purplish-brown disk flowers of blanketflower as protection against predators.[2]

Forage for young sage-grouse.[2]

Competes well with certain noxious weeds such as Acroptilon repens.[2]

Propagation

Tolerant of drought conditions, and relatively fire resistant.[2]

May be grown from seed or crown division. Spring seeding is preferred over summer or fall dormant seeding. Stratification is not necessary, but a period of cold moist stratification may decrease germination variability. The plants tend to be rather long-lived and may re-seed once established. [3]

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References

  1. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved from https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=37398
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Winslow, S., 2011. Plant Guide for blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Plant Materials Center. Bridger, Montana 59014.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Winslow, S. 2011. Plant fact sheet for blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Plant Materials Center. Bridger, MT, 59014.
  4. Hitchcock, C. L., Cronquist, A., Giblin, D., & Legler, B. et al. (2018). Flora of the Pacific Northwest: an illustrated manual. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
  5. WTU Herbarium, Burke Museum, & University of Washington. Retrieved from https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Gaillardia%20aristata
  6. Native American Ethnobotany Database. Retrieved from http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=gaillardia+
  7. 7.0 7.1 Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 181. Retrieved from http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=gaillardia+
  8. Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 67. Retrieved from http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=gaillardia+