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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Horsebrushes and Cottonthorns
  8. Cottonthorn

species 1,238 observations

Cottonthorn

Tetradymia axillaris

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

3 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Burns' Buckmoth, Scrobipalpopsis tetradymiella 2
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Behr's Hairstreak 1

Children

  • Cottonthorn
  • Longspine Horsebrush

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Perennial Shrub

From USDA PLANTS.

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