Cockscomb
ಅಣ್ಣೆಸೊಪ್ಪುश्रीआईபண்ணைக்கீரை
Celosia argentea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 34 cm
- wide
- 27 cm
Amaranthaceae
Also called Quail Grass, Wheat Celosia, Silver cock's comb
Formerly Amaranthus huttonii, Celosia aurea, Celosia castrensis, Celosia cernua, and 19 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 23 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 23 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, purple, yellow; Wikipedia cream, orange, pink, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Flor africana de terciopelo, Abanico, Pluma de gallo
- root
- selaxochitl, brain celosia, crested celosia
- Chinese
- 青葙, 雞冠花, 鸡冠花
- Czech
- nevadlec hřebenitý
- Japanese
- ノゲイトウ, ケイトウ, 鶏頭
- French
- Célosie argentée
- Dutch
- Hanenkam
- Kannada
- ಅಣ್ಣೆಸೊಪ್ಪು, ಅಣ್ಣೆ ಸೊಪ್ಪು
- Finnish
- kukonharja
- Chinese (China)
- 青葙, 鸡冠花
- Korean
- 개맨드라미, 청상자
- Russian
- Целозия серебристая
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Celosia argentea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.