Cosmos (plant)

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For other uses, see Cosmos (disambiguation).
Cosmos
Cosmos na Mostra de Flor de Hong Kong.JPG
Cosmos bipinnatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Tribe:
Coreopsideae
Genus:
Cosmos
Synonyms[2]

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Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of cosmos, consisting of flowering plants in the sunflower family.[3][4]

Range

Cosmos is native to scrub and meadowland in Mexico where most of the species occur, as well as the United States], as far north as the Olympic Pennsula in Washington, Central America, and to South America as far south as Paraguay. One species, C. bipinnatus, is naturalized across much of the eastern United States and eastern Canada.[5] It is also widespread over the high eastern plains of South Africa, where it was introduced via contaminated horsefeed imported from Argentina during the Anglo-Boer War.

Description

Cosmos are herbaceous perennial plants or annual plants growing 0.3–2 m (1 ft 0 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall. The leaves are simple, pinnate, or bipinnate, and arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are produced in a capitulum with a ring of broad ray florets and a center of disc florets; flower color is very variable between the different species. The genus includes several ornamental plants popular in gardens. Numerous hybrids and cultivars have been selected and named.

Species

Cosmos sulphureus
Accepted species[2]

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Gallery

  • Yellow cosmos flower in Kerala, India

  • Yellow-orange cosmos, Kerala, India

  • Cosmos and old house in Japan

  • Cosmos flower in Korea

  • Cosmos flower in Korea

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  3. ↑ Cavanilles, Antonio José. 1791. Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 1(1): 9–10, pl. 14
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Cosmos Cav.
  5. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps

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