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Your search found 10 taxa in the family Cornaceae, Dogwood family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Flowering Dogwood
Look for it in a wide variety of dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially over acidic substrates
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kousa Dogwood
Look for it in suburban areas (it is sometimes planted as an ornamental and may persist or seed down in the immediate vicinity of the parent tree)
Waif(s)
Non-native: China, Japan & Korea
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Common Name:
Alternate-leaf Dogwood, Pagoda Dogwood, Pagoda Cornel
Look for it in mesic to dry-mesic forests
Common in Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silky Dogwood, Bush Dogwood, Silky Cornel
Look for it along shores, streams, bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Osier Dogwood, Bailey's Dogwood
Look for it in shrub swamps, bottomlands, suburban areas
Rare
Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Swamp Dogwood, Gray Dogwood
Look for it in wet to moist forests and thickets
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Southern Swamp Dogwood
Look for it in swamps, streambanks, marshes, alluvial forests
Common (rare in Mountains) (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood
Look for it in mesic calcareous forests and thickets, shell middens, calcareous hammocks
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont, rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Midwestern Roughleaf Dogwood
Look for it in open woodlands and glades over calcareous rocks (limestone, calcareous shale); also naturalized in wetlands and slopes along old railroad tracks (in VA).
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Bunchberry, Dwarf Dogwood, Dwarf Cornel
Look for it in high elevation forests, in humus or on talus, under Betula cordifolia, Picea rubens, or Pinus rigida
Rare south of PA
Native: north of the Carolinas
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