White mulberry
InvasiveMorus alba
Mulberry (Moraceae) · Invasive · 30–50 ft
Knowing it
Glossy, smooth-topped leaves and white-to-purple fruit; brought for silkworms, now in fencerows and lots statewide and crossing with native red mulberry.
What a tree company sees
Weak, fast and messy; fruit stains and seedlings everywhere.
Recorded in 76 counties
- Adair County
- Andrew County
- Atchison County
- Audrain County
- Barton County
- Bates County
- Benton County
- Boone County
- Buchanan County
- Butler County
- Callaway County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Cass County
- Chariton County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Cole County
- Cooper County
- Dade County
- DeKalb County
- Dent County
- Franklin County
- Gentry County
- Greene County
- Harrison County
- Holt County
- Howard County
- Howell County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Knox County
- Laclede County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Macon County
- Marion County
- Mississippi County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- New Madrid County
- Newton County
- Oregon County
- Osage County
- Pemiscot County
- Pettis County
- Phelps County
- Pike County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Ralls County
- Randolph County
- Reynolds County
- Ripley County
- Saline County
- Schuyler County
- Scotland County
- Scott County
- Shannon County
- St. Charles County
- St. Clair County
- St. Francois County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Stoddard County
- Sullivan County
- Taney County
- Texas County
- Vernon County
- Washington County
- Webster County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.