Yellow flowers with burgundy to chocolate colored centers.
Plant Type
All Plants, Annuals
Sunlight
full, part sun, mostly sunny
Moisture
average
Soil & Site
average
Flowers
yellow blooms with mahogany to chocolate centers, a prolific bloomer
Leaves
feathery foliage
Dimensions
12 inches
Maintenance
not totally self-supported, I needed to stake mine, flowers in flushes so dead heading helps improve plants appearance and flower production, I dead headed by grabbing a bunch of the thin spent flower stems and snipping them all at once, individual flower dead heading is laborious
Propagation
easy from seeds
Misc Facts
Cosmidium has been grown in English gardens since the nineteenth century.
Author's Notes
I grew this from a package of seeds I picked up at a local garden center. I liked the flowers, but had floppy stem. Flowers seem to come in flushes creating some extra work. A very hard plant to find information on.