This introduced groundcover is commonly known as garden cosmos.
Cosmos bipinnatus is described as a "dicot" in the Asteraceae family.
In the Queensland Nature Conservation Act it is not classified as it is not native to Queensland. Under the Federal Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act it is
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It has not been recorded in the Wide Bay district in the Queensland Herbarium Census but is listed as occurring in the Fraser Coast region in the Atlas of Living Australia.
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Fraser Coast distribution based on unverified field reports.
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