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Gaillardia x grandiflora Van Houtte
Family Asteraceae
Gaillardia x grandiflora Van Houtte APNI*

Description: Erect perennial herb to c. 70 cm high, hairy.

Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, irregularly toothed to pinnatifid 4–15 cm long, 6–11 mm wide.

Heads terminal, usually c. 8 cm diam.; peduncles to 18 cm long; involucral bracts usually 3-seriate, lanceolate, densely hairy, to 12 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Ray florets deep red-brown tipped with bright yellow; ligules spathulate, c. 30 mm long, apex 3-toothed. Disc florets purple-black; corolla lobes c. 5 mm long, glandular-pubescent. Pappus c. 5 mm long, of 5 membranous scales tapered into minutely barbed awns.

Achenes not formed in Aust.


Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: late spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Garden escape, rarely naturalized. Introduced from Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CWS, *SFWP, *LHI
AVH map***

Text by D. W. Hardin
Taxon concept: P.S. Green (1994)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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