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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Fig Family

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Fig Family

Moraceae

Includes
6 native 20 introduced 39 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Moreae 3 native
  • Ficeae 2 native
  • Chlorophoreae 1 native
  • Artocarpeae
  • Olmedieae
  • Dorstenieae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native fig family members All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Osage-orange Maclura pomifera caterpillars 10 hosts 4 food 7 flowers 5 shelter 1
  • Florida Strangler Fig Ficus aurea caterpillars 9 hosts 1 food 40 flowers 1 shelter 1
  • Shortleaf Fig Ficus citrifolia caterpillars 9 hosts 1 food 19 shelter 1
  • Red Mulberry Morus rubra caterpillars 5 hosts 2 food 18 flowers 2 shelter 1
  • Texas Mulberry Morus microphylla caterpillars 2 hosts 2 food 12 flowers 1
  • Whalebone Tree Paratrophis pendulina caterpillars 1

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