Cosmos sulphureus

Cosmos sulphureus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Cosmos
Species:
C. sulphureus
Binomial name
Cosmos sulphureus
Synonyms[1]
  • Cosmos sulphureus var. exaristatus Sherff
  • Bidens sulphurea (Cav.) Sch.Bip.
  • Cosmos aurantiacus Klatt
  • Cosmos gracilis Sherff
  • Coreopsis artemisifolia Sessé & Moc.
  • Cosmea sulphurea (Cav.) Willd.
  • Bidens artemisiifolia f. grandiflora Kuntze
  • Bidens artemisiifolia subsp. intermedia Kuntze
  • Cosmos artemisiifolius (Jacq.) M.R.Almeida
  • Coreopsis artemisiifolia Jacq.
  • Cosmos sulphureus var. hirsuticaulis Sherff
  • Bidens artemisiifolia f. parviflora Kuntze
  • Bidens artemisiifolia var. rubra Kuntze
  • Bidens artemisiifolia f. rubra Kuntze
  • Bidens artemisiifolia (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Bidens sulfurea (Cav.) Sch.Bip.
a Cosmos sp. at Yogyakarta region of Indonesia

Cosmos sulphureus is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family Asteraceae, also known as sulfur cosmos and yellow cosmos. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, and naturalized in other parts of North and South America as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

This plant was declared invasive by the United States Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council in 1996.[9] The flowers of all Cosmos attract birds and butterflies, including the monarch butterfly.

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  2. ^ Flora of North America, Vol. 21 Page 205 Cosmos sulphureus Cavanilles, Icon. 1: 56, plate 79. 1791.
  3. ^ Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 857 硫磺菊 liu huang ju Cosmos sulphureus Cavanilles, Icon. 1: 56. 1791.
  4. ^ Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (1–2): i–viii, 1–1744.
  5. ^ Nash, D. L. 1976. Tribe V, Heliantheae. En: Nash, D.L. & Williams, L.O. (Eds), Flora of Guatemal a - Part XII. Fieldiana, Botany 24(12): 181–361, 503–570
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  7. ^ Strother, J. L. 1999. Compositae–Heliantheae s. l. 5: 1–232. In D.E. Breedlove (ed.) Flora of Chiapas. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
  8. ^ Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas
  9. ^ US Department of Agriculture Plant Profile of Cosmos sulphureus