Mesa Red Blanket Flowers

7 years ago

I'm really enjoying trying to ID all the wildflowers I see along the county road our Gause cabin property is located on. Lately I'm seeing a lot of red ones along the roadway interspersed among the wild trumpet vines and other beauties. Lo and behold, there are finally some of these right at our entry gate this year! I picked one to take a photo to post and have finally found what I think it is. Giallarda grandiflora Mesa Red© Blanket Flower. No yellow on any of these, so not the most typical blanket flowers I see driving through Central TX (though I've seen some of those, too in the area. I think mine are a prettier shade of red than those I find on-line. Must be the soil making that difference. Here's what we have:

Aren't they pretty? And they stand out much more than the more common Mexican Blanket. I think I'll try to harvest some seeds and get some clumps of these growing in the yard out there. :)

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roselee z8b S.W. Texas

7 years ago

Wow, I love that color!

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junegreen
7 years ago
Can you imagine a field of that color. Lovely
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buttoni_8b
Original Author
7 years ago
They sure break the monotony of all the yellow wildflowers, yellow lantana, white daisies with yellow centers and common Mexican Blanket which are prevalent out there.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
7 years ago
I think that your flower is the annual called Gaillardia amblyodon. You are in its native range. Gailardia grandiflora Mesa Red is a tetraploid hybrid between Perennial G aristata and annual G. pulchella and would not be all over your fields. They might have pulled a hybrid off of G amblyodon and G aerostat to get those more red G. x grandiflora hybrids.A friend sent me some seed for my field.
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buttoni_8b
Original Author
7 years ago
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It might be, but most photos of that one have at least a wisp of yellow or orange on the edges of the petals. This one had no yellow at all. Deep red petals center to edge. But I think it is definitely in the Gaillardia family.
buttoni_8b
Original Author
7 years ago
Well the all red ones are only occasional. Mostly what I see down there everywhere are the G. amblyodon and and the G. Firewheel. For every 50' of those, there will be one of these all red ones. Maybe the all red ones are genetic anomalies of one of those that just LOOK like the Mesa Red Blanket Flowers. :)