Blanket Flower
Gaillardia aristata
The photo above shows a view from above down
onto the flower head of blanket flower. Note the incised tips of and fain venation
pattern of each ray flower, and the bright reddish ring of disk flowers around
the outside of the central disk. Photographed at the trailhead for the Willard
Springs Trail on the Conboy Lake NWR to the southeast of Mt. Adams....................July
28, 2006.
The photo above shows a close-up of the underside
of the flower head of blanket flower, including the involucral bracts. Photographed
at the same location as above.