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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Amaranths
  7. Amaranthoideae
  8. Cockscombs

genus

Cockscombs

Celosia

Traits
Includes
1 native 2 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Quail Grass introduced
  • Flamingo Feather Flower present
  • Many-Flower Cockscomb
  • West Indian Cock's Comb native
  • Worm-cure Weed
  • Crested Cockscomb
  • Celosia virgata
  • Palmer's Cock's Comb

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Annual Perennial Shrub Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cockscombs All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • West Indian Cock's Comb Celosia nitida caterpillars 2 flowers 12

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