Pacific dogwood
Cornus nuttallii Audubon ex Torr. & A.Gray
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- 6.5 m
Cornaceae
Formerly Benthamia nuttallii, Benthamidia nuttallii, Cynoxylon nuttallii
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Canada to W. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 6–23 m; Plants For A Future 10–10 m
- Spread
- 6.5 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 6–6 m; Plants For A Future 7–7 m
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 太平洋四照花, 太平洋狗木
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Cornus nuttallii (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.