Please try our next iteration of the Michigan Flora Online here. Beginning on February 1, 2023, michiganflora.net will point to this new site.

The new site offers several benefits over the existing website, including real coordinate mapping, giving a clearer view of the density of documentation as well as more precision about plant distributions and their link to landforms. We will also have the ability to update species pages more regularly, both in terms of new collections and as more existing Michigan specimens are georeferenced. In addition, we have a better photo display, and offer indented keys.

The fruit of both our species is relished by birds, which are responsible for the wide distribution and frequently almost weedy occurrence of the white mulberry.

1. Leaves glabrous (at most papillate-roughened) beneath, except sparsely pubescent along the main veins and in the axils of the larger veins, lobes usually frequent; fruit white to dark purple.

M. alba

1. Leaves conspicuously pubescent beneath on the veins, and also between the veins except on very old leaves, lobes absent or rare; fruit always dark purple.

M. rubra