Cornus suecicaL.

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WFO wfo-0000924860 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cornus suecica, photographed by Jani Kettunen
fig. a Jani Kettunen, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 206024686
Cornus suecica, photographed by Thor-Rune Hansen
fig. b Thor-Rune Hansen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204344873
Cornus suecica, photographed by Norrland
fig. c Norrland, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158977864
Cornus suecica, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. d Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154200846
Cornus suecica, photographed by Henry Van T. Cotter
fig. e Henry Van T. Cotter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156809517
Cornus suecica, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. f Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 151636959
Cornus suecica, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. g Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150367403
Cornus suecica, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. h Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149280431

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Cornus suecica is native: Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, West Siberia, Baltic States, Central European Russia, Denmark, Finland, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Sweden, Alaska, Aleutian Is., British Columbia, Greenland, Labrador, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Québec JapanKamchatkaKhabarovskMagadanManchuriaPrimoryeSakhalinWest SiberiaBaltic StatesCentral European RussiaDenmarkFinlandGermanyIcelandNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwaySwedenAlaskaBritish ColumbiaGreenlandLabradorManitobaNewfoundlandNorthwest TerritoriesNova ScotiaNunavutQuébec Føroyar
Native distribution of Cornus suecica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Iceland ICE
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
Sweden SWE
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Aleutian Is. ALU
British Columbia BRC
Greenland GNL
Labrador LAB
Manitoba MAN
Newfoundland NFL
Northwest Territories NWT
Nova Scotia NSC
Nunavut NUN
Québec QUE
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
West Siberia WSB

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Great Britain, Aleutian Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 445 in flower of 862 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Cornus suecica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 445 of 862 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,001 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.1 °C -10.9 °C -0.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 12.0 °C 15.7 °C 19.5 °C
Annual rainfall 606 mm 929 mm 2,929 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 90 mm 149 mm 447 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,001 research-grade observations of Cornus suecica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 12 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 suecica (L.) Nakai
  • Chamaepericlymenum suecicum (L.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Chloranthus integrifolius Schult.f. ex Miq.
  • Cornella suecica (L.) Rydb.
  • Cornus biramis Stokes
  • Cornus borealis S.Krasch.
  • Cornus herbacea L.
  • Cornus suecica f. semivirescens Vict.
  • Cornus suecica f. suecica
  • Cornus suecica var. leucocarpa Lindstr.
  • Eukrania suecica (L.) Merr.
  • Eukrania suecica Raf.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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