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§1 Plant

Cornus obliqua Raf.

vernacular silky dogwood — species · Cornaceae


USDA
COOB9
GBIF
3082259
Rank
species
silky dogwood (Cornus obliqua)
Platephotograph · D. Marullo-MassonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Cornaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Cornus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 532 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 532 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 532 counties across 22 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 28 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 71 N
Indiana view state ↗ 61 N
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N
Kansas view state ↗ 42 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 52 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 21 N
Missouri view state ↗ 87 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 15 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 12 N
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 6 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 45 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 8 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 53 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/COOB9 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3082259 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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