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Your search found 10 taxa in the family Cornaceae, Dogwood family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

Common Name:
Flowering Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Benthamidia florida FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus florida FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cornus florida 142-01-001 FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in a wide variety of dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially over acidic substrates
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Kousa Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (6/26/20) Benthamidia japonica FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus kousa FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in suburban areas (it is sometimes planted as an ornamental and may persist or seed down in the immediate vicinity of the parent tree)
Waif(s)
Non-native: China, Japan & Korea

Common Name:
Alternate-leaf Dogwood, Pagoda Dogwood, Pagoda Cornel
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Swida alternifolia FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus alternifolia FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cornus alternifolia 142-01-002 FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in mesic to dry-mesic forests
Common in Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Silky Dogwood, Bush Dogwood, Silky Cornel
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Swida amomum FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus amomum FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cornus amomum 142-01-003 FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it along shores, streams, bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Red Osier Dogwood, Bailey's Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (6/26/20) Swida sericea FAMILY: Cornaceae
INCLUDING & NOMEN DUBIUM PLANTS National Database: Cornus sericea ssp. sericea FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in shrub swamps, bottomlands, suburban areas
Rare
Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Northern Swamp Dogwood, Gray Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (6/26/20) Swida racemosa FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus racemosa FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cornus racemosa 142-01-004 FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in wet to moist forests and thickets
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina

Common Name:
Southern Swamp Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Swida foemina FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus foemina FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cornus stricta 142-01-005 FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in swamps, streambanks, marshes, alluvial forests
Common (rare in Mountains) (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Swida asperifolia FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus asperifolia FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cornus asperifolia 142-01-006 FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in mesic calcareous forests and thickets, shell middens, calcareous hammocks
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont, rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common Name:
Midwestern Roughleaf Dogwood
Weakley's Flora: (6/26/20) Swida drummondii FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus drummondii FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in open woodlands and glades over calcareous rocks (limestone, calcareous shale); also naturalized in wetlands and slopes along old railroad tracks (in VA).
Rare
Native to Georgia

Common Name:
Bunchberry, Dwarf Dogwood, Dwarf Cornel
Weakley's Flora: (6/26/20) Chamaepericlymenum canadense FAMILY: Cornaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cornus canadensis FAMILY: Cornaceae
Look for it in high elevation forests, in humus or on talus, under Betula cordifolia, Picea rubens, or Pinus rigida
Rare south of PA
Native: north of the Carolinas
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