gaillardia

borrowed from New Latin, from René Gaillard de Charentonneau, 18th-century French magistrate and botanical amateur + -ia ¹-ia ◆Named by the French botanist Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-89) in “Extrait d'un mémoire … contenant la description d'un nouveau genre de plante,” Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les arts, tome 29 (juillet, 1786), pp. 53-56. Fougeroux initially designated the plant Gaillarda, correcting it to Gaillardia in later publications.

First Known Use: 1879