''Gaillardia multiceps'', the onion blanketflower, is a North American species of flowering plant in the
sunflower family. It is native to the southwestern United States (
Arizona,
New Mexico, western
Texas).
''Gaillardia multiceps'' grows in
gypseous soils, including sand dunes. It is an perennial herb or subshrub up to tall, with leaves on the stem rather than clustered around the base. Each flower head is on its own flower stalk up to long. Each head has 8 red ray flowers surrounding 80-100 disc flowers, yellow with purple tips.
Flora of North America, ''Gaillardia multiceps'' Greene, 1897.
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References
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Flora of Arizona
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of Texas
Endemic flora of the United States
Plants described in 1897
Taxa named by Edward Lee Greene
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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