The Sun Blanket Flower

Other Names: Blanketflower, Indian Blanket

Description:

Cheerful golden yellow daisy-like flowers with gold centers; prefers moist, rich sites but will adapt to dry sites; good for naturalizing

Ornamental Features:

The Sun Blanket Flower features beautiful yellow daisy flowers with gold eyes at the ends of the stems from early summer to mid fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's tomentose narrow leaves remain grayish green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

The Sun Blanket Flower is a dense herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This perennial will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting bees and butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

The Sun Blanket Flower is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

The Sun Blanket Flower will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 5 years.

This perennial should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type or pH, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.