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|accepted_name=Cornus foemina
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|place=8, Cornus no. 4. 1768
|year=1768
}}
|common_names=Stiff dogwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cornus stricta
|authority=Lamarck
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Swida foemina
|authority=(Miller) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. stricta
|authority=(Lamarck) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Cornaceae;Cornus;Cornus subg. Thelycrania;Cornus foemina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cornaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cornus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cornus subg. Thelycrania]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cornus foemina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 451, 457
|treatment_page=page 456
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> to 8 m, flowering at 1.5 m; rhizomes absent. <b>Stems</b> clustered; bark gray-brown, becoming gray-black, corky, appearing braided, splitting longitudinally, checkered; branchlets deep red, often pale green abaxially, or completely green or bronze if shaded, 2 proximal internodes densely pubescent, distal internodes sparsely appressed-hairy; lenticels pale circular spots on new growth, usually more common on distal portion of internodes, often overlapping, localized to form longitudinal bands, splitting periderm but not protruding or extruding tissue on 2d year branches, periderm swelling around them and usually over large contiguous areas; pith white in 1st year branches, tan in older branches. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–16 mm; blade lanceolate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 3.5–11 × 1–6 cm, base cuneate to rounded, apex abruptly acuminate to an obtuse tip, abaxial surface pale green, adaxial surface dark green, midvein turning red or maroon, both surfaces with hairs appressed, sparse, glabrate by late summer; secondary veins 3–4 per side, evenly spaced, basal vein arising 1–2 mm from blade base. <b>Inflorescences</b> flat-topped, convex, or pyramidal, 2–8 cm diam., peduncle 15–45 mm; branches and pedicels greenish yellow, turning red in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium densely appressed-hairy; sepals 0.4–1 mm; petals cream, 2.6–3.8 mm. <b>Drupes</b> pale blue, violet plumbeous, or blue violet, often turning whitish blue to white, globose or oblate-ellipsoid, 5–6 × 6–10 mm; stone globose to oblong, 3–3.7 × 3.7–5 mm, slightly ribbed, apex rounded.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Marshes, swamps, river and stream banks, pocosin margins, interdune swales, wet ditches.
|elevation=0–1500 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Cornus foemina</i> has a coronulate or minutely papillate abaxial leaf surface, visible under high magnification, like that of <i>C. obliqua</i> and <i>C. racemosa</i>.</p><!--
--><p><i>Cornus</i> cyanocarpus J. F. Gmelin 1791, a parahomonym (thus illegitimate) of C. cyanocarpa Moench 1785, pertains here.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cornus foemina
|author=
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cornus stricta;Swida foemina;S. stricta
|basionyms=
|family=Cornaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Marshes, swamps, river and stream banks, pocosin margins, interdune swales, wet ditches.
|elevation=0–1500 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication year=1768
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_312.xml
|genus=Cornus
|subgenus=Cornus subg. Thelycrania
|species=Cornus foemina
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