Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Red ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Fragrant Gaillardia, Perfumeballs, Sweet Firewheel, Rayless Gaillardia, Pincushion Daisy (Gaillardia suavis)

(See entry above)
I didn't know whether to put these photos here on the thread with its entry or under "Other" because the blooms are actually a brownish color. I found a group of fragrant gaillardia plants that all actually have blooms that have entire ray flowers which is very rare. I took me a while to decide what they were because I have never seen any that had entire ray flowers. I identified them by their leaves, growth habit, long spathe, etc. The color of the ray flowers are an interesting coppery, reddish-brown or orangey brown which I have never observed any other plant's blooms being. It is very difficult to describe and I found it very difficult to capture their true colors with my digital camera. The blooms are very beautiful. I found them in the same field that I observed pink bluebonnets and white bluebonnets.

Bloom bud on a plant whose blooms have ray flowers ...


This message was edited Apr 17, 2007 8:53 PM