Cornus amomumMill.

silky dogwood

WFO wfo-0000924584 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cornus amomum, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205673595
Cornus amomum, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. b Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204731970
Cornus amomum, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. c Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203587692
Cornus amomum, photographed by mefisher
fig. d mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203042812
Cornus amomum, photographed by ladyjanaye
fig. e ladyjanaye, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158009367
Cornus amomum, photographed by mefisher
fig. f mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203042035
Cornus amomum, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. g Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174580957
Cornus amomum, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 155014608

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,175 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,175 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cornus amomum subsp. amomum
  • Cornus amomum var. amomum
  • Cornus amomum var. schuetzeana (C.A.Mey.) Rickett
  • Cornus atrata Raf.
  • Cornus coerulea Lam.
  • Cornus cyanocarpa var. albescens Farw.
  • Cornus cyanocarpus Moench
  • Cornus ferruginea Lam.
  • Cornus ferulacea Jacq. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Cornus ferulifolia Nocca
  • Cornus ignorata K.Koch
  • Cornus lanuginosa Michx.
  • Cornus mexicana Carrière
  • Cornus minor Steud.
  • Cornus oblongifolia Raf. ex DC.
  • Cornus polygama Raf.
  • Cornus rubiginosa Ehrh.
  • Cornus sericea var. schuetzeana C.A.Mey.
  • Swida amomum (Mill.) Small
  • Swida amomum var. schuetzeana (C.A.Mey.) A.Haines
  • Thelycrania amomum (Mill.) Pojark.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.