This lifeform is widespread in North America. This lifeform is frequently domesticated. This lifeform is widespread, but not common.

Osage orange (Maclura pomifera) was originally found in a limited area from Oklahoma and Texas. However, the tree has been planted as a fence or hedge throughout much of the United States and is now common in many places. The fruit looks like an orange, but it is not edible. The tree can grow to fifty feet. The wood is hard, and is sometimes used for lawn furniture and fence posts.

Mullberry Family (Moraceae) has over 1,000 species with perhaps  seventy genera. The Classification of the Mulberries found in the eastern and central United States is somewhat confusing.  The species are as follows:

Red Mullberry (Morus rubra) is native to the United States, and it is found in rich woods.

Red Mullberry (Morus tatarica or perhaps Morus alba tatarica) is not native to the United States. This species is very, very common in the Chicago area, for example. It is found in vacant lots, along fence lines, and is everywhere abundant.

White Mullberry (Morus alba) is not native to the United States, but it is found frequently as an introduced species.

Elm and Mullberry Order (Urticales) is usually broken down into  four different families.

Dicots (Dicotyledoneae Class) are the predominant group of vascular plants on earth. With the exception of the grasses (Monocots) and the Conifers (Gymnosperms), most of the larger plants that one encounters are  Dicots. Dicots are characterized by having a seed with two outer shell coverings. Some of the more primitive Dicots are the typical hardwood trees (oaks, birches, hickories, etc). The more advanced Dicots include many of the Composite Family flowers like the  Dandelion, Aster, Thistles, and Sunflowers. Although many Monocots reach a very high degree of specialization, most botanists feel that the Dicots represent the most advanced group of plants.

Seed plants (Phylum Embryophyta) are generally grouped into one large phylum containing three major classes: the Gymnosperms, the Monocots, and the Dicots. (Some scientists separate the Gymnosperms into a separate phylum and refer to the remaining plants as flowering plants or Angiospermae.)

For North American counts of the number of species in each genus and family, the primary reference has been John T. Kartesz, author of A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland (1994). The geographical scope of his lists include, as part of greater North America, Hawaii, Alaska, Greenland, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Kartesz lists 21,757 species of vascular plants comprising the ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants as being found in greater North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).

There are estimates within the scientific world that about half of the listed North American seed plants were originally native with the balance being comprised of Eurasian and tropical plants that have become established.

Plant kingdom contains a large variety of different organisms including mosses, ferns, and seed plants. Most plants manufacture their energy from sunlight and water. Identification of many species is difficult in that most individual plants have characteristics that have variables based on soil moisture, soil chemistry, and sunlight.

Because of the difficulty in learning and identifying different plant groups, specialists have emerged that study only a limited group of plants. These specialists revise the taxonomy and give us detailed descriptions and ranges of the various species.  Their results are published in technical journals and written with highly specialized words that apply to a specific group.

On the other hand, there are the nature publishers. These people and companies undertake the challenging task of trying to provide easy to use pictures and descriptions to identify those species.