Everwilde Farms - 100 Dwarf Perennial Gaillardia Native Wildflower Seeds - Gold Vault Seed Packet

This showy golden flower is a petite version of the very popular Blanket Flower, and its short stature makes it ideal for small gardens or even container gardening. The easy-to-grow blooms provide color all season long. Meriwether Lewis collected the first specimen of this wildflower on July 7, 1806. His research of this and other native species was completed by botanist Frederick Traugott Pursch in 1813, who completed a catalogue of the species discovered on the famous expedition. The genus name "Gaillardia" honors an 18th century French botanist named Gaillard de Charentonneau, while the species name "aristata" means "bristle" in reference to both the hairy leaves and the spikes on the seeds.