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Taxonomical question about the Cosmos genus

 
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The page on Wikipedia about Cosmos states:

"Cosmos species are native to scrub and meadowland in Mexico where most of the species occur. In the United States, some varieties may be found as far north as the Olympic Peninsula in Washington"

Which varieties would these be exactly? Or are these varieties just naturalized?

 
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Cosmos

How would you like to own a universe? This will probably never happen but you can grow a plant which produces "showy flowers" in an "orderly arrangement of cosmic proportions". Cosmos is the flower you should grow. Spanish priests grew cosmos in their mission gardens in Mexico. The evenly placed petals led them to christen the flower "Cosmos," the Greek word for harmony or ordered universe. Cosmos, like many of our warm weather annuals such as marigolds, originated in Mexico and South America.



https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/flowers/cosmos/cosmos.html

What does Taxonomical? I ask google who said:

Taxonomy in biology encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

So I don't really know how to answer your question.

Sorry, maybe others will chime in the do.
 
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The taxonomy at iNaturalist seems to indicate that Southwestern Cosmos (Cosmos parviflorus) may be native outside of Mexico, but it does not grow natively in the pacific northwest.

The other usa species are listed as introduced.
 
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The local bike trail here in NE Indiana has a field of suphur cosmos up about 100 yards from the Wabash river. They do wonderfully there and bloom all summer into the fall. They vary in color from brilliant yellow to orange to red. We are in zone 6a.

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Anne Miller wrote:

Cosmos

How would you like to own a universe? This will probably never happen but you can grow a plant which produces "showy flowers" in an "orderly arrangement of cosmic proportions". Cosmos is the flower you should grow. Spanish priests grew cosmos in their mission gardens in Mexico. The evenly placed petals led them to christen the flower "Cosmos," the Greek word for harmony or ordered universe. Cosmos, like many of our warm weather annuals such as marigolds, originated in Mexico and South America.



https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/flowers/cosmos/cosmos.html

What does Taxonomical? I ask google who said:

Taxonomy in biology encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

So I don't really know how to answer your question.

Sorry, maybe others will chime in the do.



To make my question precisely clear to you, I was asking if there is are species or varieties of Cosmos that occurs naturally at the olympic penninsula area of washington.  I also knew that taxonomical wasn't a word when I posted this thread but I'm glad to see that it bothered you xD!...  
 
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I wasn't bothered.

Just curious when I encounter words I don't know so I figure that others don't know the word either.

Sorry, I still don't have an answer and hope others will chime in.
 
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