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Flower
Cosmos
Cosmos sulphureus
Airy, heat-tough annual easily grown from seed. Attracts butterflies.
Recommended uses
- Cottage gardens
- Pollinator gardens
- Plant type
- Annual flower
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Full sun
- Shade tolerance
- Low
- Water needs
- Low
- Bloom season
- Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- Orange, Yellow, Red
- Mature height
- 2–4 ft
- Mature width
- 1–2 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- High