North Carolina Wildflowers

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Moraceae

Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)
Person Co., NC
13 June 2006

The only native species of the family in NC, Red Mulberry flowers in spring and produces fruit in the summer. Ripe fruits are purple or black.

Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)
Person Co., NC
13 June 2006

Unlike the non-native White Mulberry, leaves of Red Mulberry are not shiny above.

Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)
Person Co., NC
13 June 2006


Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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