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Brown dogwood

Cornus glabrata

Also called Smooth Dogwood

Brown dogwood
Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Cornaceae (Corn family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Oregon to California
Climate
temperate

About

Cornus glabrata is a species of dogwood native to California and Oregon and known by the common names brown dogwood, smooth dogwood, and western cornel. This is a large shrub or thicket-forming bush with bright green leaves which turn red in fall. It bears plentiful clusters of fuzzy white flowers and bluish-white berries. This shrub is most often found near water, usually directly on the bank of a water source.

Other Cornus plants

Red-Barked Dogwood · Alternateleaf dogwood · Silky dogwood · Arnold's Dogwood · Toughleaf dogwood · Canadian Bunchberry · Bentham's cornel · Giant dogwood · Cornus darvasica · Cornus disciflora · Roughleaf dogwood · Cornus elliptica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cornus glabrata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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