Common along shaded roadsides and forest edges. Leaf surfaces rough. Inflorescenses without showy bracts. Does not grow as tall as C. florida.
Cornales is an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterids, which are part of the core eudicots. There are about 600 species of cornales. Cornales are flowering plants whose flowers are in groups of four, in which the petals are not joined with each other. Under the APG system, it includes the following families: