❤️🧡💛 Gaillardia or blanket flower is a group of perennials in the Asteraceae (daisy) family native to North and South America.
❤️The plant is named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an enthusiastic botanist in France.
🧡The name blanket flower may have come from the resemblance of the flowers to the brightly patterned Native American blankets in similar colors, the ability of wild species to completely cover the ground with a blanket of color, or even the legend of a Native American weaver whose grave was always covered with blooming flowers that were as beautifully colored as the blankets she had made.
💛Native Americans made tea from Gaillardia to treat gastroenteritis and sore eyes. The Kiowa thought of it as good luck. ❤️🧡💛