Gaillardia, all in colors
Gaillardia (common name blanket flower) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America. It was named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was an enthusiastic botanist. The common name may refer to the resemblance of the inflorescence to the brightly patterned blankets made by Native Americans, or to the ability of wild taxa to blanket the ground with colonies. Many cultivars have been bred for ornamental use.
These are annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs, sometimes with rhizomes. The stem is usually branching and erect to a maximum height around 80 centimeters (31.5 inches). The leaves are alternately arranged. They vary in shape. They are glandular in most species. The inflorescence is a solitary flower head. They can be almost any shade of yellow, orange, red, purplish, brown, white, or bicolored. Gaillardia - Wikipedia There are about 30 perennial species of gaillardia.
Gaillardia is also the floral emblem of the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region in Quebec as well as of Wallonia in Belgium. Gaillardia — Wikipédia
I took all the photos in the summer of 2022, at Frédéric-Back Park.
