Cornus obliqua, the blue-fruited dogwood, silky dogwood, or pale dogwood, is a flowering shrub of eastern North America in the dogwood family, Cornaceae.[1][2][3] It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Cornus amomum, which is also known as silky dogwood.[4][5] It was first described in 1820 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque.[6] It is in the subgenus Kraniopsis.[7]
Cornus obliqua, the blue-fruited dogwood, silky dogwood, or pale dogwood, is a flowering shrub of eastern North America in the dogwood family, Cornaceae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Cornus amomum, which is also known as silky dogwood. It was first described in 1820 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. It is in the subgenus Kraniopsis.
