Gaillardia aristata (Blanketflower)
Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)

Foothills, montane. Openings. Summer.

"Aristata" is Latin for "awn" or "bristle" and refers to the narrow projections of the pappus.

Meriwether Lewis collected the first specimens of this plant on the Lewis and Clark Pass of Montana in 1806 and the plant was named by Frederick Pursh in his Flora Americae Septentrionalis in 1814.