Easily confused with : its parents, but they are very rare and hardly ever seen in the wild.
Not to be semantically confused with : Blanket Bog [an extensive acidic upland peat-bog]
Is the Hybrid between: Common Blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata) and Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) but the parents are very seldom seen growing wild in the UK (if at all); most reports of either parent are actually of this hybrid!
Some photos of this hybrid have ray florets that are deeply toothed at the periphery rather like the much smaller Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) or Maiden Pink (Dianthus deltoides) but with many more than just 5 petals. Whilst other photographs seem to lack flat ray florets but rather have an annular ring of trumpet shaped ray florets with five petals, rather like those of the much smaller Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), but yellow and red in colour rather than a deep sky blue. This may be a description of the 'Fanfare' variety of Blanketflower.
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