Gossypium thurberi
| Desert cotton | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Tribe: | Gossypieae |
| Genus: | Gossypium |
| Species: | G. thurberi |
| Binomial name | |
| Gossypium thurberi | |
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Gossypium thurberi, also known as Arizona wild cotton, Thurber's cotton, or Desert Cotton, is a wild species of cotton.[1]
Description
Their flowers are not showy, but the palm-shaped green leaves turn maroon in autumn.[2]
Distribution
It is native to the Sonoran desert area of northern Mexico and parts of the state of Arizona in the United States.[3] It is often used in some southern Arizona landscapes as a deciduous shrub to small tree to 10 feet (3.0 m) tall. It is used as a larval food plant for the royal moth (Citheronia splendens sinaloensis).[4]
References
- ↑ Fryxell, P. A. 1992. A revised taxonomic interpretation of Gossypium L. (Malvaceae). Rheedea 2:136.
- ↑ Fryxell, P. A. 1976. A nomenclator of Gossypium. The botanical names of cotton. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1491:73.
- ↑ USDA - Gossypium thurberi
- ↑ Soule, J.A. 2012. Butterfly Gardening in Southern Arizona. Tierra del Soule Press, Tucson, AZ
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