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Cosmos caudatus
Also called Cosmos, Foxtail, King's Salad
Wild cosmos (Cosmos caudatus, also called king's salad) is a fast-growing annual in the daisy family, grown for its edible leaves and pink, purple or white flowers. It thrives in warm, sunny conditions and is easy to raise from seed.
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.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cosmos caudatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
