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Taxon: Cornus sericea L.

Genus: Cornus
Family: Cornaceae subfamily: Cornoideae.
Nomen number: 103145
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 2:199. 1771
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 04-Dec-2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Dec-2003
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • American dogwood   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English   [Cornus sericea subsp. sericea]
  • red-osier dogwood   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • red-osier dogwood   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Cornus sericea subsp. sericea]
  • red-stem dogwood   (Source: Trees US [as C. stolonifera]) – English   [Cornus sericea subsp. sericea]
  • western dogwood   (Source: Trees US [as C. occidentalis]) – English   [Cornus sericea subsp. occidentalis]
  • weißer Hartriegel   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German   [Cornus sericea subsp. sericea]
  • videkornell   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
    Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
    Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey [n.], New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
    Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maryland, Virginia [n.]
    South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
    Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
    Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo Leon

References:

  • Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
  • Allred, Kelly W. 2008. Flora Neomexicana I: The vascular plants of New Mexico, an annotated checklist to the names of vascular plants with synonymy and bibliography.
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
  • Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [treats as nom. ambig., = C. stolonifera Michx.].
  • Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
  • Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
  • Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
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Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Cornus sericea L.:


Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?103145 (21 May 2013)

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