| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornaceae | Benthamidia | Big-bracted Dogwood |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Cornaceae | Benthamidia florida | Flowering Dogwood, Bois bouton (frc) | In a wide variety of dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially over acidic substrates. | Maine west to Michigan, south to c. peninsular Florida and e. Texas. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cornaceae | Benthamidia japonica var. japonica | Kousa Dogwood | Suburban areas, sometimes planted as an ornamental and may persist or seed down in the immediate vicinity of the parent tree. | Native of e. Asia (China, Korea, Japan). |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cornaceae | Chamaepericlymenum | Dwarf Dogwood, Dwarf Cornel, Bunchberry |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Cornaceae | Chamaepericlymenum canadense | Bunchberry, Dwarf Cornel, Dwarf Dogwood | High elevation forests, in humus or on talus, under Betula cordifolia, Picea rubens, or Pinus rigida. | Greenland west to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, New Mexico, and Washington; ne. Asia (ne. China, Japan, Korea, n. Myanmar, e. Russia). | (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Cornaceae | Cornaceae | Dogwood Family | (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Cornaceae | Cornus | Dogwood, Cornel |  (c) Wolkenberg, Sandy - CC-BY | ||
| Cornaceae | Cornus mas | Cornelian-cherry | Disturbed, suburban woodlands. | Native of s. Europe and Asia. | (c) Wolkenberg, Sandy - CC-BY |
| Cornaceae | Swida | Dogwood, Bois de flèche (frc) |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Cornaceae | Swida ×arnoldiana | ||||
| Cornaceae | Swida alternifolia | Alternate-leaf Dogwood, Pagoda Cornel, Pagoda Dogwood, Blue Dogwood | Mesic to dry-mesic forests. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Minnesota, south to Panhandle Florida, Alabama, s. Mississippi, and Arkansas. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Cornaceae | Swida amomum | Silky Dogwood | Shores, streams, bottomlands. | New York and Massachusetts west to Indiana, south to Georgia, Panhandle Florida, and Mississippi. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cornaceae | Swida asperifolia | Eastern Roughleaf Dogwood | Mesic calcareous forests and thickets, shell middens, calcareous hammocks. | Se. North Carolina south to n. peninsular Florida, west to s. Alabama. |  (c) Doby, Joshua - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cornaceae | Swida drummondii | Midwestern Roughleaf Dogwood, Bois de flèche (frc) | Open woodlands and glades over calcareous rocks (limestone, calcareous shale); also naturalized in wetlands and slopes along old railroad tracks (in VA). | New York, Ontario, and South Dakota south to e. Tennessee, nw. Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Reported as naturalized in City of Alexandria, Virginia (Simmons et al. 2020). |  (c) Shaw, Joey |
| Cornaceae | Swida foemina | Southern Swamp Dogwood, Bois de flèche (frc) | Swamps, streambanks, marshes, alluvial forests. | Delaware south to s. Florida, west to Texas, and north in the interior to Tennessee, s. Indiana, s. Illinois, Arkansas, and se. Oklahoma. |  (c) Witsell, Theo - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cornaceae | Swida obliqua | Silky Dogwood, Pale Dogwood | Swamps, moist thickets, (in VA) rocky rivershores where periodically scoured. | Maine and Québec west to North Dakota, south to Virginia, Kentucky, c. Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cornaceae | Swida racemosa | Northern Swamp Dogwood, Gray Dogwood | Wet to moist forests and thickets. | Maine and s. Québec west to s. Manitoba, south to Virginia, nc. North Carolina, s. Illinois, and Missouri. |  (c) Kluge, Mark - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cornaceae | Swida rugosa | Roundleaf Dogwood | At high elevations, usually on talus (greenstone, quartzite, sandstone, limestone) in woodlands. | Québec to Manitoba, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, w. Virginia, e. Tennessee (Tennessee Flora Committee 2015), Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. |  (c) Kluge, Mark - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cornaceae | Swida sanguinea | Blood-twig Dogwood | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  (c) Tim - CC-BY |
| Cornaceae | Swida sericea | Red Osier Dogwood | Shrub swamps, bottomlands, suburban areas. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) and Alaska south to Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky (Clark et al. 2005), Illinois, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico. At least some of the occurrences in Virginia represent horticultural introductions. |  (c) Finzel, Brian - CC-BY-SA |