Plant Details

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

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
gray dogwood	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cornus albida Ehrh. Beitr. Naturk. Verw. Wiss. 4: 16 (1789).
Cornus comosa Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 63 (1838).
Cornus foemina subsp. racemosa (Lam.) J.S.Wilson Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 67: 795 (1965).
Cornus gracilis Koehne Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 1903: 36 (1903).
Cornus paniculata L'Hér. Cornus: 9 (1789).
Cornus paniculata var. albida (Ehrh.) Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 109 (1813).
Cornus paniculata var. radiata Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 109 (1813).
Cornus racemosa f. caeruleocarpa Oswald Phytologia 5: 337 (1956).
Cornus racemosa f. nielsenii J.W.Moore Rhodora 52: 58 (1950).
Swida candidissima Small Fl. S.E. U.S.: 853 (1903).
Swida gracilis (Koehne) Soják Novit. Bot. Delect. Seminum Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1960: 10 (1960).
Swida racemosa (Lam.) Moldenke Boissiera 7: 3 (1943).
Thelycrania racemosa (Lam.) D.Löve & J.-P.Bernard Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 53: 417 (1959).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cornus racemosa Lam.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cornus racemosa Lamarck	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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