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Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare

Look for it in shrub swamps, bottomlands, suburban areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual
4-merous
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
White
Drupe

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Landscaping with Native Trees p090?
• Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p100
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p101
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p114

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Cornales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/26/20):
Swida sericea   FAMILY Cornaceae

INCLUDING & NOMEN DUBIUM PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cornus sericea ssp. sericea   FAMILY Cornaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Cornus alba var. alba

SYNONYMOUS WITH (NOMEN DUBIUM) New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Swida sericea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Cornus stolonifera

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Swida stolonifera