There are a good many kinds of Blepharipappus.
Yellow Tidy-tips
Blepharipáppus élegans (Layia)
Yellow
Spring
California
Very pretty flowers, with slender, branching, hairy stems, about a foot tall, and light green, hairy leaves. The flowers are about two inches across, with yellow rays, tipped with white or very pale yellow, neatly arranged around the deep yellow centers, which are specked with black. The rays twist up in fading and turn to a pretty shade of dull pink. This is common and a very handsome kind.
White Tidy-tips
Blepharipáppus glandulòsus (Layia)
White
Spring
Southwest, Oreg., Wash.
A beautiful kind, eight or nine inches tall, with pale green, hairy leaves, the lower ones toothed, and a slender stem, bearing a charming flower, nearly an inch and a half across, with neat pure white rays and a bright yellow center. This grows in mountain canyons and is widely distributed as far north as British Columbia.
There are several kinds of Gaillardia, all American. They are much cultivated in gardens, were named in honor of Gaillard de Merentonneau, a French botanist.
Daisy Dwarf—Actinolepis lanosa.
Pentachaeta aurea.
White Tidy-tips—B. glandulosus.
Yellow Tidy-tips—Blepharipappus elegans.
Blanket-flower, Gaillardia
Gaillàrdia pinnatífida
Yellow
Summer
Ariz., Col., Tex.
This is handsome and conspicuous, with a slender, rough stalk, about a foot tall, dull green, stiff, rather hairy leaves, mostly from the root, and beautiful flowers, an inch and a half across, with golden-yellow rays, with three teeth, and a center of shaded maroon and yellow, which is very velvety and pretty and becomes an attractive, purplish, fuzzy, round head when the rays drop off. This grows on the plains. G. aristàta, found throughout the West and as far east as Colorado, is an exceedingly handsome kind, sometimes over two feet tall, with beautiful yellow flowers, sometimes measuring four inches across.