Garden Cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Garden Cosmos
Identify Garden Cosmos by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf type: Bipinnately compound.
- Confirm leaf shape: Linear.
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- Confirm fruit type: Achene.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cosmos bipinnatus
- Genus
- Cosmos
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Cultivated
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Central and South America
- Distribution
- Cultivated
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Manipur, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Bipinnately compoundrecordedThe leaf is divided twice — each 'leaflet' is itself a row of smaller leaflets, giving a fine, fern-like look.“This problem is alleviated when they are grown in groups, as the bipinnate leaves interlock and the plants support each other.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- LinearrecordedVery long and narrow with roughly parallel sides.“The partial leaves are linear-filiform to narrow linear with a width of 0.5 to 1 (rarely to 1.7) mm;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Garden Cosmos itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded
- Fruit type
- AchenerecordedA small, dry, single-seeded fruit that does not split open.“The achenes become blackish, are smooth or short-bristly.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Garden Cosmos itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- কসমস
- Kannada
- ಕಾಸ್ಮಾಸ್
About Garden Cosmos
Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) is a herb in the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh and 14 other states. It is cultivated. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
It is planted as an ornamental.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Garden Cosmos belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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