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|accepted_name=Cornus nuttallii
|accepted_authority=Audubon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ornithol. Biogr.
|place=4: 482. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Pacific or mountain dogwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Benthamidia nuttallii
|authority=(Audubon) Moldenke
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cynoxylon nuttallii
|authority=(Audubon) Shafer
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cornaceae;Cornus;Cornus subg. Cynoxylon;Cornus nuttallii
|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. Cynoxylon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cornus nuttallii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 444
|treatment_page=page 445
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees to 20 m, flowering at 2 m. <b>Stems</b> clustered, bark forming square to rectangular plates 0.5–1 cm wide; branchlets green, maroon, or dark red, appressed-hairy; lenticels pale round or lenticular spots, with dark central pore. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–17 mm; blade elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 6–15 × 3–9.5 cm, base broadly cuneate, apex short acuminate, abaxial surface pale green, appressed-hairy, tufts of erect hairs present in axils of secondary veins, adaxial surface yellow green, appressed-hairy; secondary veins 4–6 per side, most arising from proximal 1/2. <b>Inflorescences</b> convex, 1.5–3 cm diam., 40–75-flowered, subtended by pair of reduced leaves and pair of cataphylls; peduncle 40–60 mm; petaloid bracts 4–6, surrounding but not enclosing inflorescence through winter, white or tinged with pink, rhombic to obovate, 2.5–7 × 1.7–6 cm, apex short acuminate. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium appressed-hairy; sepals 1–1.5 mm; petals cream or yellow-green, rarely purple distally, 3–4 mm. <b>Drupes</b> red, closely appressed to each other, angular in cross section, 10–17 × 5–7.5 mm; stone ellipsoid, 7–9 × 4–5 mm, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul, sometimes Sep–Oct; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Dry to moist coastal coniferous and montane forests.
|elevation=0–2400(–3000) m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Oreg.;Wash.
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name=Cornus nuttallii
|authority=Audubon
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Benthamidia nuttallii;Cynoxylon nuttallii
|basionyms=
|family=Cornaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul, sometimes Sep–Oct; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Dry to moist coastal coniferous and montane forests.
|elevation=0–2400(–3000) m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ornithol. Biogr.
|publication year=1838
|special status=Weedy;Endemic
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|genus=Cornus
|subgenus=Cornus subg. Cynoxylon
|species=Cornus nuttallii
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