The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Gossypium thurberi
Also called Wild Cotton, Desert Cotton, Arizona Cotton
Gossypium thurberi, also known as Arizona wild cotton, Thurber's cotton, or desert cotton, is a wild species of cotton.
It is native to the Sonoran Desert area of northern Mexico and parts of the US state of Arizona. It is often used in southern Arizona landscapes as a deciduous shrub to small tree up to 10 feet (3.0 m) tall. It is a larval food plant for the royal moth (Citheronia splendens sinaloensis).
African Wild Cotton · Tree cotton · Creole cotton · Darwin's cotton · Levant cotton · Upland cotton · Gossypium mustelinum · Gossypium raimondii · Sturt's desert rose · Hawai'ian cotton · Cotton
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gossypium thurberi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
