Blanket flower is a common name for flowering plants that belong to the genus Gaillardia in the aster, daisy, sunflower, or composite family (family Asteraceae or Compositae) 20-25 different species. It native to south and north America, and its flowers close resemblance to Native Americans made blanket patterns or how its wild species blanket the ground.
Rabbits don’t eat blanket flowers, making them the right choice of ornamental plants. Their orange, red, or yellow-colored flowers that closely resemble daisies are incredibly charming. While most gardeners love Gaillardia x grandiflora, you can grow all types, and they require sandy soils that drain fast as well as full sun.
Blanket flowers joins other rabbit resistant plants such as sweet alyssum, ageratum, lantana, milkweed, Shirley poppy, cleome, pot marigold, geraniums, wax begonia, strawflower, vinca, snapdragon, sunflower, salvia, globe thistle, catmint, among others.
Instead, your rabbits will eat more of the roses, impatiens, morning glory, lettuce, beans, peas, carrot tops, berries, and other plants that they like.
While we have noted that rabbits dislike Gaillardias, some wild or house rabbits, hares, or cottontails can nip some of these flowers, especially if they don’t have any other food to eat.
Therefore, if you have them flowerbeds, perennial border, cutting gardens, or cottage gardens, it is useful to fence the area around them if you suspect bunnies or even deer eat them. You can also use other means to deter or repel rabbits from your garden.