Arizona Sun Blanket Flower
Gaillardia x grandiflora ‘Arizona Sun’ · a red-and-gold blanket flower
Fiery red petals tipped in gold, all summer long, on a compact clump that thrives on heat and dry soil and draws butterflies. Deadhead for more flowers and plant it where water never sits in winter.
- Mature size
- 10 in × 1 ft
- 0.3 × 0.3 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
- Blooms
- Jun–Sep
Arizona Sun Blanket Flower at its mature size
A mature Arizona Sun Blanket Flower grows 8 to 12 inches tall and 10 to 16 inches wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Walters Gardens, Gertens.
Through the year
What Arizona Sun Blanket Flower looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Oct–Mar
Dies back to the crown over winter.
New growth · Apr–May
Low mound of gray-green leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Jun–Sep
Red petals tipped in gold on many daisies.
Growing Arizona Sun Blanket Flower
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, the desert Southwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Drought tolerant, pollinators, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid (North American species)
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Arizona Sun Blanket Flower, that’s about 1 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Arizona Sun Blanket Flower in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.