Saturday 5 July 2014
Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of Cosmos, of about 20 to 26 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Cosmos is native to scrub and meadowland in Mexico where most of the species occur, Florida and the southern United States, Arizona, Central America, and to South America in the north to Paraguay in the south. It is also widespread over the high eastern plains of South Africa, where it was introduced via contaminated horsefeed imported from Argentina during the Anglo-Boer War. Cosmos are herbaceous perennial plants growing 0.3 to 2 m tall. The leaves are simple, pinnate, or bipinnate, and arranged in opposite pairs. Source
