Calflora: Cornus glabrata

Cornus glabrata Benth.

brown dogwood

Cornus glabrata, a dicot, is a tree or shrub that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities), wetland-riparian
Wetlands:	Usually occurs in wetlands, but occasionally found in non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Toxicity:	DERMATITIS [California Poison Control System 2010]
Elevation:	between 0 and 5000 feet
Family:	CORNACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Cornus found in California.

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Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 7 / 3 CCH Amador: 2 / 2 CCH Butte: 12 / 11 CCH Contra Costa: 22 / 8 CCH Colusa: 9 / 8 CCH Del Norte: 1 / 1 CCH El Dorado: 9 / 6 CCH Humboldt: 9 / 8 CCH Inyo: 1 / 1 CCH Kern: 3 / 2 CCH Lake: 33 / 31 CCH Los Angeles: 28 / 24 CCH Mendocino: 28 / 27 CCH Monterey: 37 / 34 CCH Modoc: 1 / 1 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 1 CCH Marin: 3 / 1 CCH Napa: 36 / 25 CCH Nevada: 7 / 5 CCH Placer: 1 / 1 CCH Riverside: 11 / 10 CCH Sacramento: 3 / 2 CCH Santa Barbara: 18 / 14 CCH San Benito: 6 / 1 CCH Santa Clara: 52 / 48 CCH San Diego: 7 / 6 CCH San Francisco: 1 / 0 CCH Shasta: 25 / 21 CCH Siskiyou: 34 / 32 CCH San Luis Obispo: 37 / 36 CCH San Mateo: 15 / 7 CCH Solano: 8 / 5 CCH Sonoma: 18 / 14 CCH Stanislaus: 1 / 1 CCH Tehama: 3 / 2 CCH Trinity: 19 / 17 CCH Tulare: 2 / 2 CCH Tuolumne: 3 / 3 CCH Ventura: 15 / 13 CCH Yolo: 3 / 2 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Cornus glabrata from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (COGL3)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database