Thanks to both of you for the help. I was thinking that maybe it was a sassafras, because google
searches for "trilobed" leaves came up with ones that look very much like mine. See:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...ssafras+leaves


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:24:08 +0000 (UTC), (mel turner) wrote:


I'm reasonably sure that's the native red mulberry, _Morus rubra_.
Leaf lobing is very variable.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/b700/b700_32.html
http://www.iastate.edu/~bot356/speci.../MoruRubr.html
http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslin...s/M-rubra.html
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1...5/morurubr.htm
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academi...orus_rubra.htm
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academi...us_rubra_3.jpg
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academi...bra_fruits.jpg
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/c...on/Morusru.htm
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/c...s/MorusRu3.htm