Description

Key Information:

Soil: Xeric (Dry)
Sun: Full Sun – Part Sun
Height: 18-24″
Bloom Color: Orange-red and yellow
Bloom Season: June – October

More Details:

Suggested Uses: Blanket flowers are a garden favorite! This plant has extremely showy flowers with a very long flowering season. Individual plants are short-lived perennials, but will reseed and provide beautiful plants for years. They do very well in dry, sandy and gravelly soils.

Native Range: Primarily native to the West and the Southwest, this plant’s range includes scattered areas throughout the Great Lakes and the Northeast. Native to northwestern Minnesota and Dakota County.

Pollinators: Attractive to butterflies. These are an important, high-value nectar source for adult monarch butterflies.  Provides nectar and pollen to native bees. The long flowering season of this plant means this plant provides a steady source of food to the pollinators in your garden all summer long. The seeds are a source of food for birds!

Flowers: Composite, daisy-like, 1.5-3″ in diameter. Ray flowers are yellow around the circumference and red near the disk flowers. Disk flowers are red or green.

Leaves: Most leaves are basal, longer than they are wide.

More information: USDA plant profile