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 * 1) Soil [KT] x
 * 2) Sunlight Regulation [DS]
 * 3) Leaves [TK] x
 * 4) Height/DBH [TK] x
 * 5) Where it resides [SC]
 * 6) Cornus amomum resides in mesic environments throughout Eastern North America.
 * 7) Climate [SC]
 * 8) Cornus amomum can survive in humid subtropical, humid continental, and temperate climates.
 * 9) Geography [SC]
 * 10) Native to the Eastern half of North America, Cornus amomum can be found in the states of the Great Lakes, East Coast, and Southeast regions as well as Missouri and Arkansas.
 * 11) Seeds (more detail) [TK] x
 * 12) Bark [KT] x
 * 13) Producer/food for animals [DS]
 * 14) The fruit of the silky dogwood is commonly eaten by several species of birds such as the northern mocking bird, gray catbirds, and white-throated sparrows. Several species of mice store the seeds of the dogwood for food over winter.
 * 15) Predators [DS]
 * 16) Data Sets [JW]

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Cornus amomum Mill. (Silky Dogwood, or Kinnikinnik) is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from Ontario and Quebec south to Arkansas and Georgia. It is also found in other parts of North America. The silky dogwood is grown best in soil that is moist and has a pH between 6-7. The texture of the soil ranges from medium to coarse. This shrub is shade tolerant. Other names for this dogwood include red willow, silky cornel, squawbush, and indigo dogwood.

It is a deciduous shrub growing between 6-10ft tall. The bark is a brownish red color with smooth lines trailing up when it is younger. As the shrub grows older it develops a more grey color with flaky square cracks. The leaves are opposite, 10 cm long and 7 cm broad, oval with an acute apex. The underside of the leaves, as well as the bark from new and or younger branches, have small hairs that appear silk like. The flowers are produced in cymes appearing in hues of light-yellow to white. The fruit is a small drupe that begins with a white color and slowly changes to blue as the fruit ripens.

Classification
Silky Dogwood is usually included in the dogwood genus Cornus as Cornus amomum Mill., although it is sometimes segregated in a separate genus as Swida amomum (Mill.) Small.

Depending on the author, two subspecies or species are generally recognized:
 * Cornus amomum Mill. subsp. amomum, or Cornus amomum Mill. - eastern + south-eastern United States.
 * Cornus amomum subsp. obliqua (Raf.) J.S. Wilson, or Cornus obliqua Raf. - eastern Canada, eastern + south-eastern United States.