Canadian bunchberry
Cornus canadensis L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Cornaceae
Also called Bunchberry, Bunchberry dogwood, Dwarf cornel, Crackerberry, Creeping dogwood
Formerly Arctocrania canadensis, Chamaepericlymenum canadense, Cornella canadensis, Cornus cyananthus, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Russian Far East to Japan, Subarctic America to N. & C. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- CORCAN, tatangqurhnaq, tsengqułektat
- French
- quatre-temps, cornouiller du Canada, cornouiller quatre-temps
- Finnish
- kanadanruohokanukka
- Danish
- Canadisk hønsebær
- Russian
- Кизил канадский, Дёрен канадский
- Swedish
- Amerikanskt hönsbär
- Chinese
- 草茱萸
- Japanese
- ゴゼンタチバナ
- Czech
- dřín kanadský
- German
- Kanadischer Hartriegel
- Ojibwa
- Ode'iminijiibik (Zhakaagomin, Zhaashaagomin, Zhaashaagominens)
- Estonian
- kanada kukits
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Cornus canadensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.