Gaillardia beautiful

Family Asteraceae. Native to the southern states of North America.

Annual, sprawling plant, 30-50 cm tall, covered with soft hairs. Stem leaves almost sessile, entire, elongated, lanceolate or spatulate, soft; lower leaves on petioles, lyrately pinnatifid. Inflorescences solitary, up to 6-7 cm in diameter, on long, thin peduncles. Ligulate (ray) florets lanceolate, toothed, yellow, grading at the base to pink or red-purple. Tubular (disc) florets are red-brown. Flowers abundantly from June to November. Self-seeding. In cultivation since 1783.