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*Broussonetia papyrifera (Linnaeus) L'Héritier ex Ventenat. Common name: Paper Mulberry. Phenology: Apr-May. Habitat: Urban lots, disturbed areas, roadsides. Distribution: Native of e. Asia.

ID notes: Easily distinguished from all of our Morus species by its harshly scabrous leaf pubescence, also giving the leaf a grayish coloration from a distance, and the mixture of alternate, opposite, and whorled leaf arrangement (as opposed to strictly alternate in Morus).

Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, FNA3, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mo3, NcTx, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S13, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3; Morus papyrifera L. = n/a; = Papyrius papyriferus (L.) Kuntze — S. Basionym: Morus papyrifera L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Broussonetia papyrifera - FNA3

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL
  • Great Plains: UPL
  • Midwest: FACU
  • Northcentral & Northeast: UPL

Heliophily ⓘ: 6

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