Cosmos caudatus

Cosmos caudatus
Wild Cosmos caudatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Cosmos
Species:
C. caudatus
Binomial name
Cosmos caudatus
Synonyms[1]
  • Bidens berteriana Spreng.
  • Bidens carnea Heer
  • Bidens caudata (Kunth) Sch.Bip.
  • Cosmos caudatus var. exaristatus Sherff
  • Cosmea caudata (Kunth) Spreng.
  • Bidens artemisiifolia subsp. caudata (Kunth) Kuntze
Cosmos caudatus illustration[2]

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),[3] and the West Indies, though naturalized in tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

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  2. ^ illustration circa 1880 from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas [...] Gran edicion
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  9. ^ Foster RC (1958). "A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Bolivia". Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 184: 1–223.