Gaillardia pulchellaFoug.

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WFO wfo-0000020805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205663304
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. b saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204746501
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. c saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204863065
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by Steve Taylor
fig. d Steve Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203516470
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by Daniel S.
fig. e Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203422804
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by Calinsdad
fig. f Calinsdad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201976896
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by Ryan Kurtz
fig. g Ryan Kurtz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203457575
Gaillardia pulchella, photographed by guppin
fig. h guppin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204466668

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 4,329 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 4,329 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calonnea pulcherrima Buchoz
  • Gaillardia bicolor Lam.
  • Gaillardia bicolor var. bicolor
  • Gaillardia bicolor var. drummondii Hook.
  • Gaillardia drummondii DC.
  • Gaillardia lobata Buckley
  • Gaillardia neomexicana A.Nelson
  • Gaillardia picta D.Don
  • Gaillardia pulchella f. flaviflora S.S.Ying
  • Gaillardia pulchella f. lorenziana Voss
  • Gaillardia pulchella f. picta (D.Don) Voss
  • Gaillardia pulchella f. pulchella
  • Gaillardia pulchella var. albiflora Cockerell
  • Gaillardia pulchella var. australis B.L.Turner & Whalen
  • Gaillardia pulchella var. drummondii (Hook.) B.L.Turner
  • Gaillardia pulchella var. picta (D.Don) A.Gray
  • Gaillardia pulchella var. simplex Voss
  • Gaillardia pulchella var. tubulosa Voss
  • Gaillardia scabrosa Buckley
  • Galordia alternifolia Raeusch.
  • Virgilia helioides L'Hér.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.