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Cornus drummondii, commonly known as the roughleaf dogwood, is a small deciduous tree that is native primarily to the Great Plains and Midwestern regions of the United States. It is also found around the Mississippi River . [ 3 ]
Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species [Note 1] of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods or cornels, which can generally be distinguished by their blossoms, berries, and distinctive bark. [3] Most are deciduous trees or shrubs, but a few species are nearly herbaceous perennial subshrubs, and some species are ...
The trunk attains 15–30 centimetres (6–12 in) in diameter. The bark is reddish brown. [6] The branches have fine hairs and the young bark is thin and smooth, becoming scale-like with ridges as it ages. [5] The leaves are opposite, simple, oval, 5–13 cm (2–5 in) long, and 3.8–7.1 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –3 in) broad. They are green with ...
Cornus foemina is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae known by the common names stiff dogwood [2] and swamp dogwood. [4] [5] It is native to parts of the eastern and southeastern United States. [2] This plant is a large shrub or small tree up to 25 feet tall with trunks up to 4 inches wide. The bark is smooth or furrowed.
Cornus alternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Mississippi. It is rare in the southern United States. [2] It is commonly known as green osier, [3] alternate-leaved dogwood, [4] and ...
The leaves are opposite, 5–12 centimetres (2– 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long and 2.5–6 cm (1– 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad, with an ovate to oblong shape and an entire margin; they are dark green above and glaucous below; fall color is commonly bright red to purple. Like all dogwoods, they have characteristic stringy white piths within the leaf ...
The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, 6–13 cm (2.4–5.1 in) long and 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) broad, with an apparently entire margin (actually very finely toothed, under a lens); they turn a rich red-brown in fall. Flowering dogwood attains its greatest size and growth potential in the Upper South, sometimes up to 40 feet in height.