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the flower that paints sunsets on a prairie that refuses to die
common namecalled blanketflower for carpeting plains in fiery color
named afterhonors Gaillard, an 18th-century French botany patron
tough as nailsthrives in drought, heat, and lousy soil
pollinator magnetbees and butterflies mob its daisy-like blooms
native rangewild across North and South American grasslands