Cornus sanguineaL.

common dogwood

WFO wfo-0000924828 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cornus sanguinea, photographed by luluchouette
fig. a luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 204341802
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201643913
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Marino Linić
fig. c Marino Linić, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204196160
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203940476
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Nigel Bentley
fig. e Nigel Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203819872
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200563132
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. g Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202243863
Cornus sanguinea, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201357139

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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 = 1,310 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,310 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 31 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 australis C.A.Mey.
  • Cornus australis var. koenigii (C.K.Schneid.) Wangerin
  • Cornus cilicica Wangerin
  • Cornus citrifolia Wahlenb.
  • Cornus hungarica Kárpáti
  • Cornus koenigii C.K.Schneid.
  • Cornus latifolia Bray
  • Cornus sanguinea f. atrosanguinea (V.Gibbs) Rehder
  • Cornus sanguinea f. mietzschii Schwer.
  • Cornus sanguinea f. variegata (Weston) Schelle
  • Cornus sanguinea f. verticillata Bolzon
  • Cornus sanguinea f. viridissima (Dieck) Schelle
  • Cornus sanguinea var. atrosanguinea V.Gibbs
  • Cornus sanguinea var. variegata Weston
  • Cornus sanguinea var. viridissima Dieck
  • Cornus sylvestris Bubani
  • Swida australis (C.A.Mey.) Pojark. ex Grossh.
  • Swida cilicica (Wangerin) Soják
  • Swida czerniaewii (Grosset) Soják
  • Swida hungarica (Kárpáti) Soják
  • Swida koenigii (C.K.Schneid.) Pojark. ex Grossh.
  • Swida sanguinea (L.) Opiz
  • Swida sanguinea subsp. australia (C.A.Mey.) Kubát
  • Swida sanguinea subsp. australis (C.A.Mey.) Kubát

and 7 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.