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Flowers

Both cosmos and daisy blossoms are bright and simple. A child drawing her first flower might well sketch the round central eye surrounded by multiple petals. Although modern daisy cultivars come in many colors, original plants like Bellis perennis produce white petals around inner disks of yellow. The wide-eyed flower resembles the sun or "day's eye," for which it was reputedly nicknamed. Native cosmos blush in pink tones, but cultivars are available in a vast range of colors from white to vivid pinks and purples to chocolate brown. Typical daisy petals are long and slender, perfect for he-loves-me-loves-me-notting, while cosmos' petals tend to be wider and uptipping so that the flowers could accurately be described as cup-shaped.

Foliage

Both daisies and cosmos stand tall in your garden. Exactly how tall the stems grow depends on the species, but some cosmos rise to the height of a short person, while daisies generally stop growing at about 18 inches. Both species have stiff stems that make them ideal cut flowers, but the leaves differ. Cosmos leaves look like green threads attached to the stalk all the way up to the blossom. Most daisy species have more traditional oval or rounded leaves clumped at the base of the stalk.

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unicronnz

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