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Dogwoods Cornus

Most rated Cornus records are fire-resistant — 13 of 16 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 16 records carrying 88 evidence rows from 41 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: dogwood Cornus sp. Fire-resistant Consensus 5 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Fire-resistant

12 species

Documented conflict

1 species

honest ties — treat conservatively near structures

Tatarian dogwood Documented conflict Cornus alba Michigan's E2948 list says low · Ordering and sorting of fire resistance of tree leaves says high Zones 3–7 genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

2 species

About dogwoods

Corpus context. Cornus is the directory's #23 largest of 550 genus groups: 16 records carrying 88 evidence rows from 41 cited sources, recorded as tree, shrub, groundcover , hardy across USDA zones 2–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Cornus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated dogwoods grow

Tagged as growing in 50 states.

See Cornus on Grow → · JSON