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| − | '''''Cornus suecica''''', the '''dwarf cornel''' or '''bunchberry''', is a species of [[flowering plant]] in the dogwood family [[Cornaceae]], native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], and also locally in extreme northeastern and northwestern [[North America]].
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| − | Dwarf cornel is a [[rhizomatous]] [[herbaceous]] [[perennial plant|perennial]] growing to {{convert|20|cm|in|0|abbr=in}} tall, with few pairs of sessile cauline [[leaf|leaves]] in opposite pairs, {{convert|2|–|4|cm|in|frac=4|abbr=in}} long and {{convert|1|–|3|cm|in|frac=4|abbr=in}} broad, with 3-5 veins from the base.<ref name=Stace/> The [[flower]]s are small, dark purple, produced in a tight [[umbel]] that is surrounded by four conspicuous white petal-like [[bract]]s {{convert|1|-|1.5|cm|in|frac=8|abbr=in}} long. The [[fruit]] is a red [[Berry (botany)|berry]].
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| − | == Habitat and range ==
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| − | ''Cornus suecica'' is a plant of heaths, moorland and mountains, often growing beneath taller species such as heather (''[[Calluna vulgaris]]'').<ref name=Blamey>{{cite book|last1=Blamey|first1=M.|last2=Fitter|first2=R.|last3=Fitter|first3=A|year=2003|title=Wild flowers of Britain and Ireland: The Complete Guide to the British and Irish Flora.|publisher=A & C Black|location=London|isbn=978-1408179505|page=168}}</ref><ref name=Stace>{{cite book|last=Stace|first=C. A.|authorlink = Stace, C. A.|year=2010|title=New Flora of the British Isles|edition=Third|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location = Cambridge, U.K.| page=510|isbn=9780521707725}}</ref> Its range is nearly circumboreal, but it is absent from the continental centres of Asia and North America.<ref name=DVF>{{cite web |title=Den Virtuella Floran, ''Cornus suecica'' L. |first=Arne |last=Anderberg |publisher=Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden |url=http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/corna/cornu/cornsuev.jpg }}</ref> In North America, the species is found in [[Alaska]] ([[United States|U.S.]]) and [[British Columbia]] ([[Canada]]), and also eastern Canada ([[Labrador]], [[New Brunswick]], [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], [[Nova Scotia]], and [[Quebec]]), as well as [[Greenland]], but not in the intervening region.<ref>{{cite web|title=BONAP distribution maps for North American species of Cornus|url=http://www.bonap.org/BONAPmaps2010/Cornus.html|accessdate=17 May 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917233024/http://www.bonap.org/BONAPmaps2010/Cornus.html|archivedate=17 September 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=plants/>
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| − | Where ''[[Cornus canadensis]]'', a forest species, and ''Cornus suecica'', a heath or bog species, grow near each other in their overlapping ranges in Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland, they can [[Hybrid (biology)|hybridize]] by [[pollination|cross-pollination]], producing plants with intermediate characteristics.<ref>Neiland, Bonita J. 1971. ''The forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska''. Vegetatio. 22: 1-64.</ref>
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| − | ==Taxonomy==
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| − | ''Cornus suecica'' is included in the subgenus ''Arctocrania''.<ref>{{eFloras|1|316357|Cornus subg. Arctocrania|first1=Zack E. |last1=Murrell |first2=Derick B. |last2=Poindexter |family=Cornaceae}}</ref>
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