Gossypium thurberi

Gossypium thurberi, also known as Arizona wild cotton, Thurber's cotton, or desert cotton, is a wild species of cotton. Their flowers are not showy, but the palm-shaped green leaves turn maroon in autumn. 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).