Plant

Firewheel

Gaillardia pulchella

Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name: Gaillardia pulchella
Family: Asteraceae, order Asterales
Group: Plant

Red-and-yellow wheels that pollinators love.

Spot it Daisy flowers with red petals tipped in yellow.
Home Sunny garden beds and open ground.
Food web Bees and butterflies come for its nectar.
Why it matters Long-flowering and rich in nectar, it keeps bees and butterflies fed and boosts pollination.

Read more: Gaillardia pulchella on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist in 2020, in Jaipur.^[20]

Sources

Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
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