When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: legend of the dogwood

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cornus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus

    The term "dogwood winter", in colloquial use in the American Southeast, especially Appalachia, [38] is sometimes used to describe a cold snap in spring, presumably because farmers believed it was not safe to plant their crops until after the dogwoods blossomed. [39] Anne Morrow Lindbergh gives a vivid description of the dogwood tree in her poem ...

  3. Cornus florida - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_florida

    Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [ 4 ]

  4. Cornus nuttallii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_nuttallii

    Cornus nuttallii, the Pacific dogwood, [1] [2] western dogwood, [3] or mountain dogwood, [2] is a species of dogwood tree native to western North America. The tree's name used by Hul'q'umi'num' -speaking nations is Kwi’txulhp .

  5. Cornus sericea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_sericea

    Cornus sericea, the red osier or red-osier dogwood, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to much of North America. It has sometimes been considered a synonym of the Asian species Cornus alba .

  6. Dogwood (band) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogwood_(band)

    Dogwood is a punk rock band from Escondido, California founded in 1993. Their music has been compared to that of The Offspring , and they list Bad Religion , NOFX and Lagwagon as musical influences.

  7. West Virginia folklore - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_folklore

    This legend comes from the Scottish-Irish settlers of West Virginia. It tells of a sick young boy with only one possible cure: an herb grown by a nearby swamp. The boy's father set out to go look for the herb to save his son. As he searched the swamp grounds, he felt that he was not alone. He felt that as he walked faster, it followed faster.

  8. Cornus kousa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_kousa

    It is resistant to the dogwood anthracnose disease, caused by the fungus Discula destructiva, unlike C. florida, which is very susceptible and commonly killed by it; for this reason, C. kousa is being widely planted as an ornamental tree in areas affected by the disease. [8] Fall foliage is a showy red color.

  9. Kinnikinnick - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnikinnick

    An informant removed the outside bark of a twig with her thumbnail and noted that the remaining layer of bark when carefully shaven off served as tobacco, so-called kinnikinnick. Today kinnikinnick is a mixture of finely crushed inner bark of the red dogwood and shavings of plug tobacco.