Family: Asteraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Able to grow in tropical climates
  
• Other Cosmos species have become invasive
  
• Unpalatable to deer and rabbits
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Tuberous roots (functional geophyte)

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Sterile (only found in cultivation)
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Lack of fertile achenes limits ability of plant to escape and spread outside cultivation