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Cornus amomum, the silky dogwood, is a species of dogwood native to the southern Ontario and eastern United States, from Michigan and Vermont south to Alabama and Florida. [2] Other names include red willow , silky cornel , kinnikinnick , and squawbush .
Cornus obliqua, the blue-fruited dogwood, silky dogwood, or pale dogwood, is a flowering shrub of eastern North America in the dogwood family, Cornaceae. [1] [2] [3] It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Cornus amomum, which is also known as silky dogwood. [4] [5] It was first described in 1820 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. [6]
This is a list of woods, ... Dogwood (Cornus spp.) Flowering dogwood ... Northern silky oak (Cardwellia sublimis) American sycamore ...
Silky dogwood is a common name for two species of shrubs, formerly treated as a single species: Cornus amomum , a more southerly species found in the eastern U.S. Cornus obliqua , a more northerly species found in the eastern U.S. and Canada
An older name of the dogwood in English is whipple-tree, occurring in a list of trees (as whipultre) in Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales. [8] This name is cognate with the Middle Low German wipel-bom "cornel", Dutch wepe, weype "cornel" (the wh-in Chaucer is unetymological, the word would have been Middle English wipel).
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Cornus sericea, the red osier or red-osier dogwood, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to much of North America. It has sometimes been considered a synonym of the Asian species Cornus alba .
Cornus foemina is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae known by the common names stiff dogwood [2] and swamp dogwood. [4] [5] It is native to parts of the eastern and southeastern United States. [2] This plant is a large shrub or small tree up to 25 feet tall with trunks up to 4 inches wide. The bark is smooth or furrowed.