[Members of the Sunflower Family with Daisy-like Heads in Mt. Adams Country]

Blanket Flower, Great-flowered Gaillardia

Gaillardia aristata

Flower head of Blanket Flower, Great-flowered Gaillardia: 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.

Involucral bracts of Blanket Flower, Great-flowered Gaillardia: Gaillardia aristata

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.

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