Garden Cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
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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