Red-Barked Dogwood
Cornus alba L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.7 m
- wide
- 2.3 m
Cornaceae
Also called Siberian Dogwood, White Dogwood
Formerly Cornus dichotoma, Cornus hessei, Cornus purpurea, Cornus sibirica, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Europe to N. KoreaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Simplified Chinese
- 欧洲红瑞木, 凉子木, 红瑞山茱萸
- Czech
- svída bílá
- Welsh
- cwyrosyn rhisgl coch
- German
- Tatarischer Hartriegel, Weißer Hartriegel
- Spanish
- Corno Siberiano
- Estonian
- Verev kontpuu
- Finnish
- Pensaskanukka
- French
- Cornouiller blanc
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Sibirkornell
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Sibirkornell
- Polish
- Dereń Biały
- Slovenian
- tatarski dren
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Cornus alba (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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