Cornus canadensisL.

Canadian bunchberry

WFO wfo-0000924607 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cornus canadensis, photographed by webohms
fig. a webohms, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205287632
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Bruce Cook
fig. b Bruce Cook, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205167895
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. c Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205968115
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Rob Foster
fig. d Rob Foster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205944747
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. e Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205023409
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. f Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205022821
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. g Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205860556
Cornus canadensis, photographed by Lyrae
fig. h Lyrae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205001079

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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 = 5,261 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 5,261 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 37 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.

  • Arctocrania canadensis (L.) Nakai
  • Chamaepericlymenum canadense (L.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Chamaepericlymenum canadense f. purpurascens Miyabe & Tatew.
  • Cornella canadensis (L.) Rydb.
  • Cornus canadensis f. albomacula Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. alpestris (House) Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. aphylla Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. bifoliata Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. canadensis
  • Cornus canadensis f. connatifolia Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. dutillyi Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. elongata Peck
  • Cornus canadensis f. florulenta Lakela
  • Cornus canadensis f. foliolosa Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. infraverticillata Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. medeoloides Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. ornata Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. purpurascens (Miyabe & Tatew.) H.Hara
  • Cornus canadensis f. ramosa Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. rosea Fernald
  • Cornus canadensis f. secunda Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. semivirescens J.Cay.
  • Cornus canadensis f. virescens Lepage
  • Cornus canadensis f. viridis B.Boivin

and 13 more.

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.