Rudbeckia look kind of like black-eyed Susan--always a shade of yellow with dark centers. Gallardia are a coarser flower, good for drying, and they have multicolored pedals (like orange near the center turning yellow at the tips) with a lighter center. There are also differences in when and how often they bloom. Both are great landscape brighteners.
What is the difference between the flowers "Gaillardia" and Rudbeckia"? The pictures of them look the same.
Gaillardia have more color variations than rudbeckia. But the simple answer is, the former is an annual, the latter a perennial.
Reply:I think the varieties are enlarging and maybe making it more difficult to differentiate. The Rudbeckia I am familiar with has yellow ray flowers with the large dark-brown center. The Gaillardia has shorter fuller flowers that are usually two or three colored bands of yellow, orange or red. Other than that, I really don't know how else to describe them, but the pictures I've seen, and live flowers have looked pretty much as described.
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