garden cosmos
Mexican aster
cosmos bipinnatus latin

Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos or Mexican aster, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant native to Mexico.

Cosmos bipinnatus is considered a half-hardy annual, although plants may reappear via self-sowing for several years.

Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) was popular 30 years ago, when people grew flowers from seed, rather than buying transplants for flower beds.

Cosmos bipinnatus (as B. formosa )

Cosmos bipinnatus (I)

During the 1999 World Kindness Movement conference in Tokyo, the cosmos bipinnatus was adopted as the official flower for the organization.

First, your cosmos, probably Cosmos bipinnatus, the taller cosmos usually planted for its tall, graceful stalks of ferny foliage and lovely flowers in white, pink and shades of magenta, is not a controlled, uniform hybrid.