| Cornus suecica | |
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| Growing next to lingonberry in Norway | |
Scientific classification
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Cornales |
| Family: | Cornaceae |
| Genus: | Cornus |
| Subgenus: | Cornus subg. Arctocrania |
| Species: | C. suecica
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| Binomial name | |
| Cornus suecica | |
Cornus suecica, the dwarf cornel or bunchberry, is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe Asia, and North America.
Dwarf cornel is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial growing to 20 cm (8 inches) tall, with few pairs of sessile cauline leaves in opposite pairs, 2–4 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄2 inches) long and 1–3 cm (1⁄2–1+1⁄4 inches) broad, with 3-5 veins from the base. [2] The flowers are small, dark purple, produced in a tight umbel that is surrounded by four conspicuous white petal-like bracts 1–1.5 cm (3⁄8–5⁄8 inch) long. The fruit is a red berry.
Cornus suecica is a plant of heaths, moorland and mountains, often growing beneath taller species such as heather ( Calluna vulgaris). [3] [2] Its range is nearly circumboreal, but it is absent from the continental centres of Asia and North America.[ citation needed] In North America, the species is found in Alaska ( U.S.) and British Columbia ( Canada), and also eastern Canada ( Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec), as well as Greenland, but not in the intervening region. [4] [1]
Where Cornus canadensis, a forest species, and Cornus suecica, a heath or bog species, grow near each other in their overlapping ranges in Alaska, Labrador, Finland and Greenland, they can hybridize by cross-pollination, producing plants with intermediate characteristics. [5]
Cornus suecica is included in the subgenus Arctocrania. [6]
- ^ a b USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Cornus suecica". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ a b Stace, C. A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 510. ISBN 9780521707725.
- ^ Blamey, M.; Fitter, R.; Fitter, A (2003). Wild flowers of Britain and Ireland: The Complete Guide to the British and Irish Flora. London: A & C Black. p. 168. ISBN 978-1408179505.
- ^ "BONAP distribution maps for North American species of Cornus". Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ Neiland, Bonita J. 1971. The forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska. Vegetatio. 22: 1–64.
- ^ Murrell, Zack E.; Poindexter, Derick B. (2016). "Cornus subg. Arctocrania". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 12. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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Media related to
Cornus suecica at Wikimedia Commons -
Data related to
Cornus suecica at Wikispecies - "Cornus suecica". Plants for a Future.
| Cornus suecica | |
|---|---|
|
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| Growing next to lingonberry in Norway | |
|
Scientific classification
| |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Cornales |
| Family: | Cornaceae |
| Genus: | Cornus |
| Subgenus: | Cornus subg. Arctocrania |
| Species: | C. suecica
|
| Binomial name | |
| Cornus suecica | |
Cornus suecica, the dwarf cornel or bunchberry, is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe Asia, and North America.
Dwarf cornel is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial growing to 20 cm (8 inches) tall, with few pairs of sessile cauline leaves in opposite pairs, 2–4 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄2 inches) long and 1–3 cm (1⁄2–1+1⁄4 inches) broad, with 3-5 veins from the base. [2] The flowers are small, dark purple, produced in a tight umbel that is surrounded by four conspicuous white petal-like bracts 1–1.5 cm (3⁄8–5⁄8 inch) long. The fruit is a red berry.
Cornus suecica is a plant of heaths, moorland and mountains, often growing beneath taller species such as heather ( Calluna vulgaris). [3] [2] Its range is nearly circumboreal, but it is absent from the continental centres of Asia and North America.[ citation needed] In North America, the species is found in Alaska ( U.S.) and British Columbia ( Canada), and also eastern Canada ( Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec), as well as Greenland, but not in the intervening region. [4] [1]
Where Cornus canadensis, a forest species, and Cornus suecica, a heath or bog species, grow near each other in their overlapping ranges in Alaska, Labrador, Finland and Greenland, they can hybridize by cross-pollination, producing plants with intermediate characteristics. [5]
Cornus suecica is included in the subgenus Arctocrania. [6]
- ^ a b USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Cornus suecica". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ a b Stace, C. A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 510. ISBN 9780521707725.
- ^ Blamey, M.; Fitter, R.; Fitter, A (2003). Wild flowers of Britain and Ireland: The Complete Guide to the British and Irish Flora. London: A & C Black. p. 168. ISBN 978-1408179505.
- ^ "BONAP distribution maps for North American species of Cornus". Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ Neiland, Bonita J. 1971. The forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska. Vegetatio. 22: 1–64.
- ^ Murrell, Zack E.; Poindexter, Derick B. (2016). "Cornus subg. Arctocrania". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 12. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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Media related to
Cornus suecica at Wikimedia Commons
-
Data related to
Cornus suecica at Wikispecies
- "Cornus suecica". Plants for a Future.