EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: GOSHI
• Preferred name: Gossypium hirsutum
• Authority: Linnaeus

Mexico, Central America, South America (northern, eastern Brazil). Cultivated as the principal source of cotton fibre throughout most of the tropics. Introduced in eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indochina, China, Mali to Ethiopia, Burkina Faso to Nigeria and Cameroon, Zaïre, East Africa, southern USA, Caribbean, South America (Brazil)

WSSA list of weeds in North America