About Gossypium thurberi Tod.
Gossypium thurberi Tod. produces flowers that are not showy. It has palm-shaped green leaves that change to a maroon color in autumn. This species is native to the Sonoran Desert region, found in northern Mexico and parts of Arizona, a U.S. state. In southern Arizona, it is commonly used in landscaping, growing as a deciduous shrub to small tree that reaches up to 10 feet (3.0 m) tall. It serves as a larval food plant for the royal moth subspecies Citheronia splendens sinaloensis.
