View the original page version

Cornus

Cornus
Family: Cornaceae
Cornus image
Max Licher
Fls mostly perfect, 4-merous; sep usually minute; pet small, valvate; style well developed; stigma capitate; fr a drupe, the stone bilocular (except in C. canadensis) but often only 1-seeded; fls in cymose or cymose-paniculate infls or, by reduction of the branches, in umbelliform or head-like clusters. (Chamaepericlymenum, Svida, Cynoxylon) 50+, widespread but mainly N. Temp. Named hybrids include C. ءcadiensis Fernald (C. alternifolia נsericea), C. ءrnoldiana Rehder (C. amomum var. schuetzeana נracemosa), and C. سlavinii Rehder (C. rugosa נsericea). Others include C. amomum נstricta, C. drummondii נstricta, C. amomum var. schuetzeana נdrummondii, C. drummondii נracemosa, and C. racemosa נstricta.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Harvard Forest & Quabbin Watershed NEON (HARV) plants - Northeast (D01)
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus alternifolia
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus canadensis
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus drummondii
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus florida
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus foemina
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus nuttallii
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus racemosa
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus rugosa
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus sericea
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus suecica
Map not
Available
Image of Cornus unalaschkensis
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Images
not available
Map not
Available