About king's salad
Cosmos caudatus or king's salad is an annual plant in the genus Cosmos, bearing purple, pink, or white ray florets. It is native to Latin America (from Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil to Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico), and the West Indies, though naturalized in tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cosmos caudatus
- Genus
- Cosmos
- Family
- ASTERACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Central America
- Distribution
- West Indies, Central America, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-April
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Botanical family
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
king's salad belongs to the Asteraceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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