Taxon: Cornus sericea L. subsp. sericea

See other conspecific taxa:

• Cornus sericea (2 accessions)
• Cornus sericea subsp. occidentalis (1 accessions)

Common names:

• American dogwood   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• red-osier dogwood   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• red-stem dogwood   (Source: Trees US [as C. stolonifera]) – English
  
• weißer Hartriegel   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 1999)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• 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, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, 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, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maryland, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo Leon

• also cultivated

References:

• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= C. stolonifera].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [= C. stolonifera].

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cornus alba var. coloradensis Koehne (basionym)
  
• (=) Cornus sericea var. sericea
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Cornus stolonifera Michx.
  (previously associated with 27 accessions)
• (=) Cornus stolonifera var. coloradensis (Koehne) C. K. Schneid.
  

Check other web resources for Cornus sericea L. subsp. sericea:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Cornus sericea subsp. sericea cultivars

Check other databases for 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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