![]() ![]() The plant is a larval host to the bordered patch butterfly ( Chlosyne lacinia) and the painted schinia moth ( Schinia volupia), which feed upon its foliage. It is called "天人菊" ("Tianren Daisy") in Chinese. The flower has also been introduced to the Penghu Islands in Taiwan, where it is the County Flower of Penghu County. It can also grow on vacant lots in urban areas, but generally below 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) above sea level. It is common along the roads and prefers sandy soils. The plant generally lives in the sandy plains and deserts of the south of the North American continent. as well as in Québec, Ontario, China, South Africa, and parts of Central and South America. It is also naturalized in scattered locations in other parts of the U.S. It is native to northern Mexico ( Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas) and the southern and central United States from Arizona east to Florida and the Carolinas and north as far as Nebraska. The fruit is an achene, almost pyramidal, hairy, and prolonged by a pappus 5 to 8 millimetres ( 3⁄ 16 to 5⁄ 16 in) in length. It typically blooms from May to July, but does so practically year-round in some areas. In one variety, almost the entire flower is red, with only the barest tips of the petals touched with yellow. The central disc florets of the flower head tend to be more red-violet, with the outer ray florets being yellow. The pinwheel, daisy-like inflorescences are 4–6.5 cm in diameter, vividly colored with red, orange and yellow and is surrounded by 10 to 20 ray florets up to 2 cm the ligule has three lobes. It has a hairy stem, simple or branched near the base, where the leaves are essentially located towards the bottom of the plant. The leaves are alternate, mostly basal, 4–8 cm ( 1 + 5⁄ 8– 3 + 1⁄ 8 in) long, with edges smooth to coarsely toothed or lobed. ![]() pulchella is hairy and upright, growing to 60 centimetres (24 inches) tall. Gaillardia pulchella ( firewheel, Indian blanket, Indian blanketflower, or sundance) is a North American species of short-lived perennial or annual flowering plants in the sunflower family. ![]()
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