Gaillardia /elrdi/ the blanket flowers is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family Asteraceae native to North and South America. It was named after an M. Gaillard de Charentonneau an 18th-century French magistrate who was a patron of botany. The common name may refer to the resemblance of the inflorescence to the brightly patterned blankets made by Native Americans or to the ability of wild taxa to blanket the ground with colonies. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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