
dogwoods, hydrangeas, and allies
Cornales
The Cornales are an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterids, containing about 600 species. Plants within the Cornales usually have four-parted flowers, drupaceous fruits, and inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries.
7 branches of this order, most-observed first

Dogwood family
familyCornaceae

hydrangea family
familyHydrangeaceae

Stickleaf Family
familyLoasaceae

tupelo family
familyNyssaceae

assegai family
familyCurtisiaceae

Sillyberries
familyGrubbiaceae

hydrostachys family
familyHydrostachyaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cornales in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47195.