Characteristics
Dicots
Gaillardia pulchella Foug.
FIREWHEEL
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In the USA, Gaillardia pulchella is found predominantly from Lousiana west to Arizona and Kansas south to Texas. It is widely cultivated in Florida. It is not native to Florida nor the rest of the eastern USA (Weakley 2020). Small (1929: 16) noted its naturalization in the Halifax River region. A DNA phylogeny found G. pulchella closely related to other species of the southwestern USA (Marlowe & Hufford 2007).
Not Native
UPL (NWPL)
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Classification
Citation
GAILLARDIA PULCHELLA Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Hist.. Acad. Roy. Sci. Mém. Math. Phys. (Paris 4to) 1786: 5, t. 1. 1788.
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LOUISIANA: Cult. in France, 1783, Herb. Jussieu 9464 (lectotype: P). Lectotypified by B. L. Turner & T. Watson, Phytologia Mem. 13: 27. 2007.
Species Distribution Map
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