GENUS CODE: BENTH GENUS SCIENTIFIC:Benthamidia GENUS AUTHORITY: Spach GENUS COMMON: Big-bracted Dogwood GENUS SUMMARY: A genus of about 7 species, trees, of Asia, e. North America, w. North America, and montane Mexico. See Cornaceae for discussion of generic treatment. We here circumscribe Benthamidia broadly to include the syncarpous, big-bracted dogwoods of e. Asia, sometimes separated as genus Dendrobenthamia Hutchinson. GENUS IDENTIFICATION: GENUS REFERENCES:
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FAMILY CODE: CORNAC FAMILY SCIENTIFIC:Cornaceae FAMILY AUTHORITY: (Berchtold & J. Presl) Dumortier 1829 FAMILY COMMON: Dogwood Family FAMILY SUMMARY: A family of 2 genera and about 85 species, trees, shrubs, lianas, and subshrubs, semicosmopolitan (mainly northern hemisphere). The Cornaceae is best circumscribed to exclude Nyssa (Xiang et al. 2002). FAMILY REFERENCE: Xiang et al. (2002); Kubitzki in Kubitzki (2004).
FRUITING PERIOD: Sep-Oct. DISTRIBUTION
HABITAT TYPE: Bottomlands, Dry forests, Moist forests
NATIVE RANGE: eastern N. America & ne. Mexico HORTICULTURAL
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USDA Symbol: BEFL
USDA Common Name: Flowering Dogwood
Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
Distribution: USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WV), CAN (ON)
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Tree,Shrub
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Key to Map SymbolsABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora) Cornaceae (Berchtold & J. Presl) Dumortier 1829 (Dogwood Family) SUMMARY: A family of 2 genera and about 85 species, trees, shrubs, lianas, and subshrubs, semicosmopolitan (mainly northern hemisphere). The Cornaceae is best circumscribed to exclude Nyssa (Xiang et al. 2002). REFERENCE: Xiang et al. (2002); Kubitzki in Kubitzki (2004).ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora) Benthamidia Spach (Big-bracted Dogwood) SUMMARY: A genus of about 7 species, trees, of Asia, e. North America, w. North America, and montane Mexico. See Cornaceae for discussion of generic treatment. We here circumscribe Benthamidia broadly to include the syncarpous, big-bracted dogwoods of e. Asia, sometimes separated as genus Dendrobenthamia Hutchinson. REFERENCE:
HERBARIUM RESOURCES
SERNEC: Find Benthamidia florida in Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available) UNC SERNEC: Find Benthamidia florida in
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium - Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)