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Cornus racemosa, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Tom Norton, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY
#1250 most planted

Cornus racemosa

Northern swamp dogwood · also Gray dogwood, Panicle dogwood, Grey dogwood

79
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
6
cities
2.0 in
median trunk (5 cm, 79 measured)

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Cornus racemosa, also known as gray dogwood, is a shrub or small tree native to central and eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States. It is a member of the dogwood family Cornaceae. It is generally not considered threatened.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Mississauga · Canada
    30—2.0 in
  2. Kingston · Canada
    21—0.8 in
  3. Burlington, ON · Canada
    135.8 yr2.4 in
  4. Boston · United States
    712 yr3.0 in
  5. Vancouver · Canada
    5—3.0 in
  6. Ottawa · Canada
    3—1.6 in

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • New England-Acadian forests
  • Western Great Lakes forests

Other Cornus in the catalogue

16 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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