OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Cornales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Swida asperifolia   FAMILY Cornaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cornus asperifolia   FAMILY Cornaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cornus asperifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)

Cornus asperifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Cornus asperifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Cornus foemina ssp. microcarpa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 142-01-006:

Cornus asperifolia   FAMILY Cornaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Svida microcarpa

 

COMMON NAME:
Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood


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image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_820

        

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_coas2_001_lvd

        

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

Mark A. Musselman    mam_roughleafdog060310dz

June    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

Leaves scabrous, trichomes forked or curling, spreading or appressed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

Mark A. Musselman    mam_roughleafdogw060310

June    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

The inflorescence is a convex cyme, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

Mark A. Musselman    mam_roughleafdogw060310c

June    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

Mark A. Musselman    mam_roughleafdogw060310e

June    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

Mark A. Musselman    mam_roughleafdogw060310z

June    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

Flowers small, perfect, 4-merous. Inflorescence an open cyme, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

JK Marlow    jkm160915_069

September    Beaufort County    SC

Green's Shell Enclosure Heritage Preserve

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

JK Marlow    jkm160915_072

September    Beaufort County    SC

Green's Shell Enclosure Heritage Preserve

Upper surfaces of the leaves are rough to the touch, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Swida asperifolia, Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood

JK Marlow    jkm160915_073

September    Beaufort County    SC

Green's Shell Enclosure Heritage Preserve

NC-SC populations be of hybrid origin (S. foemina x S. asperifolia), per Weakley's Flora (2020).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Swida asperifolia   FAMILY Cornaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cornus asperifolia   FAMILY Cornaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cornus asperifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Cornus asperifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cornus asperifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cornus foemina ssp. microcarpa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 142-01-006:
Cornus asperifolia   FAMILY Cornaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Svida microcarpa

 

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2324

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic calcareous forests and thickets, shell middens, calcareous hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in NC)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
4-merous
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
White
Drupe

 

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