Species name :

Gossypium hirsutum L.
Published in L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 975 (1763)

Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.)

Gossypium mexicanum

Full list of synonyms : [Euro+Med] [PlantList] [IPNI] [POWO] [Catalogue of Life ]

Plant Family :

Malvaceae Juss. (The Mallow Family)
18 species from the Malvaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands.

English name(s) :

American Cotton, American Upland Cotton, Bourbon Cotton

Maltese name(s) :

Qotton ta' Gallipoli

Status for Malta :

Casual or accidental alien species introduced in Malta rather recently and which is short-lived or resticted in small populations for a short time without becoming widespread.

Frequency :

Very Common     Common     Frequent     Scarce     Rare     Very rare     Extinct

Growth form :

Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: THEROPHYTE (annuals)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon

Legal Protection [link]:

Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006)

Red List (1989) :

Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands

Flowering Time :

Jul-Sep

Colour of Flowers:

Yellow or Cream

Habitat in Europe:

Data will be available in the next update of this website.

Preferred habitat in Malta:

Widely cultivated to produce cotton in the distant past. Now cultivated for ornament but sometimes found cultivated in fields and which give rise to escaped plants persisting for few years

Botanical Description:

Data will be available in the next update of this website.

Distributional range:

Cultivated in S. Europe, and perhaps locally naturalized.

Native region outside Europe:

(Probably originated in Peru; cultivated in tropical America and southern U.S.A.)

Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):

Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993):

Introduced in  Doubtful inAlbania, Crete, Greece, Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), Romania

Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) - Country codes

[cAb(A N) ?Al cAr ?Cr nGr cHs(S) nIt cLu cRm nSi(S) cTcs]

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