Gaillardia Multiceps
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''Gaillardia multiceps'', the onion blanketflower, is a North American species of flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to the southwestern United States ( Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas). ''Gaillardia multiceps'' grows in gypseous soils, including sand dunes. It is an perennial herb or subshrub up to tall, with leaves on the stem rather than clustered around the base. Each flower head is on its own flower stalk up to long. Each head has 8 red ray flowers surrounding 80-100 disc flowers, yellow with purple tips.Flora of North America, ''Gaillardia multiceps'' Greene, 1897.
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multiceps Flora of Arizona Flora of New Mexico Flora of Texas Endemic flora of the United States Plants described in 1897 Taxa named by Edward Lee Greene Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Helenieae-stub