Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cornus florida L. [Cornaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american boxwood	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
american dogwood	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
american-boxwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blomsterkornell	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blumen-hartriegel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cornouiller à fleurs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cornus florida	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
dog tree	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
dogwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
eastern flowering dogwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
flowering cornel	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
flowering dogwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
white dogwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 25 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cornus urbiniana Rose Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 8: 53 (1903).
Benthamia florida (L.) Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 23: 41 (1909).
Benthamidia florida (L.) Spach Hist. Nat. Vég. 8: 107 (1839).
Benthamidia florida f. pendula (Dippel) H.Hara J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 113 (1948).
Benthamidia florida var. pendula (Dippel) Moldenke Torreya 34: 8 (1934).
Benthamidia florida f. pluribracteata (Rehder) H.Hara J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 113 (1948).
Benthamidia florida var. rubra (Weston) Moldenke Torreya 34: 8 (1934).
Benthamidia florida f. rubra (Weston) H.Hara J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 113 (1948).
Benthamidia florida var. urbiniana (Rose) H.Hara J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 113 (1948).
Benthamidia florida f. xanthocarpa (Rehder) H.Hara J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 113 (1948).
Cornus candidissima Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 6 (1768).
Cornus florida var. pendula Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 3: 244 (1893).
Cornus florida f. pendula (Dippel) Schelle in L.Beissner, E.Schelle & H.Zabel, Handb. Laubholzben.: 368 (1903).
Cornus florida f. pluribracteata Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 7: 243 (1926).
Cornus florida f. purpurea Geerinck Taxonomania 1: 8 (2001).
Cornus florida var. rosea Carrière & André Rev. Hort. (Paris) 63: 369 (1891).
Cornus florida f. rubra (Weston) Schelle Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 181 (1915 publ. 1916).
Cornus florida var. rubra Weston Bot. Univ. 1: 73 (1770).
Cornus florida subsp. urbiniana (Rose) Rickett Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 72: 223 (1945).
Cornus florida var. urbiniana (Rose) Wangerin in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 229: 87 (1910).
Cornus florida f. xanthocarpa (Rehder) Rehder Man. Cult. Trees, ed. 2: 688 (1940).
Cornus florida var. xanthocarpa Rehder Man. Cult. Trees: 673 (1927).
Cynoxylon floridum (L.) Britton & Shafer N. Amer. Trees: 744 (1908).
Cynoxylon floridum var. pendulum (Dippel) Moldenke Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 60: 56 (1933).
Cynoxylon floridum var. rubrum (Weston) Moldenke Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 60: 56 (1933).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cornus florida	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Cornus florida L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cornus urbiniana	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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