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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 ]
Cornus suecica is a plant of heaths, moorland and mountains, often growing beneath taller species such as heather (Calluna vulgaris). [3] [2] Its range is nearly circumboreal, but it is absent from the continental centres of Asia and North America.
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 ...
One of the first trees to signal the change of season is flowering dogwood, Cornus florida. This small understory tree usually under 25’ is best known for its spring bloom but can have excellent ...
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.
Dogwood flowers have four parts. In many species, the flowers are borne separately in open (but often dense) clusters, while in various other species (such as the flowering dogwood), the flowers themselves are tightly clustered, lacking showy petals, but surrounded by four to six large, typically white petal-like bracts. [citation needed]