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Cornus sanguinea, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Cornus sanguinea

Common dogwood · also Bloody dogwood, Bloodtwig dogwood, Dogwood

113
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
9
cities
2.3 in
median trunk (6 cm, 60 measured)
23 yr
median age (38% have a planting date)

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Cornus sanguinea, also known as common dogwood or bloody dogwood, is a shrub or small tree native to temperate regions across Europe and western Asia. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant and is 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. London · United Kingdom
    51—1.4 in
  2. Amsterdam · Netherlands
    2546 yr5.9 in
  3. Boston · United States
    1416 yr—
  4. Paris · France
    11—4.4 in
  5. Berlin · Germany
    3—8.6 in
  6. Ottawa · Canada
    3——
  7. Helsinki · Finland
    3—2.0 in
  8. Vancouver · Canada
    2—2.5 in
  9. Copenhagen · Denmark
    1——

Native range

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

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Baltic mixed forests
  • Central Anatolian steppe and woodlands
  • Central European mixed forests
  • East European forest steppe
  • Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
  • European Atlantic mixed forests
  • Western European broadleaf forests

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands

  • Central Anatolian steppe

Other Cornus in the catalogue

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

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