| Author | (L.) Ventenat | |
| Distribution | Mostly Piedmont, Sandhills, and northern portions of the Coastal Plain. Scarce elsewhere.
Native of Asia; in N.A. MA to FL and TX, north in the Mississippi basin to IL and NE. | |
| Abundance | Uncommon to fairly common; apparently rare in the Mountains and southeastern Coastal Plain. In 1967 it was the dominant tree on a small island in the Newport River, Carteret Co., and supported a heron rookery. | |
| Habitat | Waste places, "sand hill", forest edges and openings, disturbed ground, heron rookery island, forested margin of old cemetery. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting April-May. | |
| Identification | Paper Mulberry is a small tree potentially to 50 feet high, but in NC probably just half that. Leaves look quite like Morus, broadly ovate in outline and with a drip-tip, some with no lobing, some with one "thumb", some with 2 "thumbs." Leaves are densely gray-pubescent beneath, unlike Morus. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
