Rough-leaf Cornel

Forms thickets. Best used as a screen or buffer plant.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Birds and small mammals consume the fruit.

Dry woods.

• Showy flowers
• Larval host for cecropia silkmoth (Hyalophora cecropia) and spring azure butterfly (Celastrina ladon). 
• Attracts long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, and butterflies.