Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about White Mulberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Wayne's Word provides large-scale images of mulberry catkins.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Morus alba
FAMILY
Moraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Morus alba
FAMILY
Moraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 057-02-001:
Morus alba
FAMILY
Moraceae
COMMON NAME:
White Mulberry, Silkworm Mulberry, Russian Mulberry
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_moal_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_morus_alba_3759
April Catawba County NC
Flowers in stalked, axillary, pendulous catkins, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_morus_alba_3763
April Catawba County NC
Pistillate catkins are short-oblong and densely flowered, per Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States by Robert K. Godfrey, Jean W. Wooten.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_morus_alba_4821
April Iredell County NC
Staminate catkins are slenderly cylindric and loosely flowered, per Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States by Robert K. Godfrey, Jean W. Wooten.
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JK Marlow jkm140523_154
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves shiny, green, and glabrous above, with several lobes or none, per Trees of the Southeastern United States.
COMPARE
leaves of Mulberry species
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JK Marlow jkm140523_161
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves glabrous below except sometimes hairs on main veins & in their axils, per Trees of the Southeastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm140523_162
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_morus_alba_1
May Iredell County NC
Ripe fruits black, purple, red, pink or white, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm140611_709
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140611_711
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm131020_937
October Spartanburg County SC