Cosmos caudatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Cosmos
- Species
- Cosmos caudatus
- Scientific Name
- Cosmos caudatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cosmos caudatus
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.
...Cosmos caudatus in languages:
- English
- king's salad
- Indonesian
- Kenikir
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cosmos atrosanguineus
- Cosmos bipinnatus
- Cosmos carvifolius
- Cosmos caudatus
- Cosmos concolor
- Cosmos crithmifolius
- Cosmos deficiens
- Cosmos diversifolius
- Cosmos intercedens
- Cosmos jaliscensis
- Cosmos juxtlahuacensis
- Cosmos landii
- Cosmos linearifolius
- Cosmos longipetiolatus
- Cosmos mattfeldii
- Cosmos mcvaughii
- Cosmos modestus
- Cosmos montanus
- Cosmos nelsonii
- Cosmos nitidus
- Cosmos ochroleucoflorus
- Cosmos pacificus
- Cosmos palmeri
- Cosmos parviflorus
- Cosmos peucedanifolius
- Cosmos pringlei
- Cosmos pseudoperfoliatus
- Cosmos purpureus
- Cosmos ramirezianus
- Cosmos scabiosoides
- Cosmos schaffneri
- Cosmos sessilis
- Cosmos sherffii
- Cosmos sulphureus