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Gaillardia

noun

Any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy.

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Gaillardia pulchella

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"Gaillardia" Quotes from Famous Books

... the long grass, I saw a clump of flaming orange-colored milkweed, rare in that part of the State. I left the road and went around through a stretch of pasture that was always cropped short in summer, where the gaillardia came up year after year and matted over the ground with the deep, velvety red that is in Bokhara carpets. The country was empty and solitary except for the larks that Sunday morning, and it seemed to lift itself up to me and to ...

— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather

Words linked to "Gaillardia" : wildflower, fire wheel, blanket flower, fire-wheel, Indian blanket, wild flower, genus Gaillardia