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Mexican Aster

Cosmos bipinnatus

2,055Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
116Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb0
Mar2
Apr8
May16
Jun109
Jul372
Aug556
Sep603
Oct305
Nov77
Dec2

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England73
2Kent England53
3Oxfordshire England50
4Surrey England50
5Cornwall England43
6Gloucestershire England39
7North Yorkshire England38
8Norfolk England37
9Dorset England37
10Devon England34
11Essex England32
12Somerset England32
13Cumbria England31
14Lincolnshire England27
15City of Edinburgh Scotland22
79 England7 Scotland8 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 116 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,055
Peak month
September
Counties with records
116
Scientific name
Cosmos bipinnatus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
368
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Cosmos
Name with authority
Cosmos bipinnatus Cav.
Contributing datasets
9

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q575748 · GBIF 3098912