Cornus

Accepted species 57 Documented here 26 Family Cornaceae

Accepted species 57 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cornus canadensis L. 3,673 documented
Cornus sericea L. 3,523 documented
Cornus florida L. 2,750 documented
Cornus sanguinea L. 1,758 documented
Cornus drummondii C.A.Mey. 1,342 documented
Cornus mas L. 1,232 documented
Cornus alternifolia L.f. 1,160 documented
Cornus nuttallii Audubon ex Torr. & A.Gray 772 documented
Cornus amomum Mill. 585 documented
Cornus alba L. 530 documented
Cornus racemosa Lam. 453 documented
Cornus suecica L. 286 documented
Cornus rugosa Lam. 276 documented
Cornus foemina Mill. 188 documented
Cornus kousa Bürger ex Hance 116 documented
Cornus controversa Hemsl. 82 documented
Cornus obliqua Raf. 81 documented
Cornus disciflora Moc. & Sessé ex DC. 76 documented
Cornus excelsa Kunth 65 documented
Cornus capitata Wall. 58 documented
Cornus macrophylla Wall. 40 documented
Cornus glabrata Benth. 34 documented
Cornus hongkongensis Hemsl. 17 documented
Cornus asperifolia Michx. 10 documented
Cornus sessilis Torr. 8 documented
Cornus officinalis Siebold & Zucc. 7 documented
Cornus × acadiensis Fernald 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus × arnoldiana Rehder 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus × friedlanderi W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus × lepagei Gervais & Blondeau 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus × slavinii Rehder 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus × unalaschkensis Ledeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus austrosinensis W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus bretschneideri L.Henry 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus chinensis Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus darvasica (Pojark.) Pilip. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus eydeana Q.Y.Xiang & Y.M.Shui 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus hemsleyi C.K.Schneid. & Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus iberica Woronow 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus koehneana Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus meyeri (Pojark.) Pilip. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus meyeri Pilipenko 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus multinervosa (Pojark.) Q.Y.Xiang 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus oblonga Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus oligophlebia Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus papillosa W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus parviflora S.S.Chien 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus peruviana J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus quinquenervis Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus schindleri Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus sunhangii T.Deng, Z.Y.Lv & Zhi M.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus torreyi S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus ulotricha C.K.Schneid. & Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus volkensii Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus walteri Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus wardiana Rushforth & Wahlsteen 0 below the evidence gate
Cornus wilsoniana Wangerin 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.