Cornus floridaL.

flowering dogwood

WFO wfo-0000924674 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cornus florida, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. a Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 202347072
Cornus florida, photographed by Ethan
fig. b Ethan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201250943
Cornus florida, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. c Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202430741
Cornus florida, photographed by Margaret Northfield
fig. d Margaret Northfield, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200989359
Cornus florida, photographed by stephen
fig. e stephen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205329742
Cornus florida, photographed by sudomir
fig. f sudomir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199963039
Cornus florida, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. g Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199915567
Cornus florida, photographed by Iona
fig. h Iona, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199798365

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Flowering n = 5,089 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 5,089 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.

  • Benthamia florida (L.) Nakai
  • Benthamidia florida (L.) Spach
  • Benthamidia florida f. pendula (Dippel) H.Hara
  • Benthamidia florida f. pluribracteata (Rehder) H.Hara
  • Benthamidia florida f. rubra (Weston) H.Hara
  • Benthamidia florida f. xanthocarpa (Rehder) H.Hara
  • Benthamidia florida var. pendula (Dippel) Moldenke
  • Benthamidia florida var. rubra (Weston) Moldenke
  • Benthamidia florida var. urbiniana (Rose) Moldenke
  • Benthamidia florida var. urbiniana (Rose) H.Hara
  • Cornus candidissima Mill.
  • Cornus florida f. florida
  • Cornus florida f. pendula (Dippel) Schelle
  • Cornus florida f. pluribracteata Rehder
  • Cornus florida f. purpurea Geerinck
  • Cornus florida f. rubra (Weston) Schelle
  • Cornus florida f. xanthocarpa (Rehder) Rehder
  • Cornus florida subsp. urbiniana (Rose) Rickett
  • Cornus florida var. florida
  • Cornus florida var. pendula Dippel
  • Cornus florida var. rosea Carrière & André
  • Cornus florida var. rubra Weston
  • Cornus florida var. rubra André
  • Cornus florida var. urbiniana (Rose) Wangerin

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.