Cornus alba
Red-barked dogwood · also White dogwood, Siberian dogwood, Westonbirt dogwood
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Cornus alba, also known as red-barked or Siberian dogwood, is a hardy, deciduous shrub or small tree notable for its bright red stems in winter and variegated foliage in some cultivars. It produces white, sometimes blue-tinted, oval fruits. This species is often used ornamentally in landscaping.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 490.00%—1.9 in
- 80.05%—2.4 in
- 60.01%19 yr—
- 30.00%—3.0 in
- 20.00%—4.0 in
- 10.00%—3.9 in
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Form
- Multi-trunk
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 9.8 ft
Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.0 in, mean 2.4 in, 90th percentile 3.7 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
- Central Korean deciduous forests
- East European forest steppe
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
Boreal Forests/Taiga
- East Siberian taiga
Other Cornus in the catalogue
16 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
