Flowering Dogwood
(Cornus florida L.)
LEAVES: Opposite, simple, 3"-5" long; clustered toward tips of twigs; margins smooth or wavy; veins prominent and curved like a bow. Foliage bright red in autumn.
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Flowering dogwood
Cornus florida ...
Eastern Dogwood, Flowering Dogwood, Eastern Flowering Dogwood
This large group of trees, shrubs and ground covers features plants with attractive flowers and foliage, colorful bark and dependable fall color.
The flowering dogwood is wonderful at its best and in its homeland (eastern North America). It needs the right conditions to thrive and is happiest in Britain in the drier southeastern parts.
( American Beauty Red Flowering Dogwood )
'American Beauty Red' have very nice foliage and deep red flowers. Dogwoods in general are an understory, deciduous tree, with horizontal to upright branching form is often overplanted, but always loved.
Flowering Dogwood - Cornus florida
Japanese Flowering Dogwood - Cornus kousa
Pagoda Dogwood - Cornus alternifolia
Pacific Dogwood - Cornus nuttallii
Gray Dogwood - Cornus racemosa
Cornelian Cherry - Cornus mas ...
Flowering dogwoods C. florida, C. kousa, C. capitata and C. nuttallii do best in well-drained but fertile soil that is rich in organic matter and neutral to acid in pH. C.
Flowering Dogwood (C. florida)
Mature Height/Spread: The flowering dogwood will grow 40 feet tall when grown as an understory tree in a woodland setting. In the sun, the same tree may only grow 15 to 20 feet tall and wide.
FLOWERING DOGWOOD
Cornus florida
General Notes
Needs ample water. Probably the most attractive flowering dogwood. Has Fragrant Flower.
flowering dogwood Cornaceae Cornus florida L. symbol: COFL2
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Flowering dogwood has opposite, deciduous midgreen leaves, 3-6 in (7.6-15 cm) long, which turn red and purple in autumn. Flowering dogwood blooms in the spring, as its new leaves are unfolding, and usually remains showy for 2-3 weeks.
Flowering Dogwoods
Cornus kousa, C. florida, C. Canadensis, C. alternifolia, C nuttallii C. controversa, C. mas.
Cornus canadensis ...
Hybrid Flowering Dogwood KOR-nus FLOR-i-da KOR-nus KOO-sa
Below are brief descriptions of each of the six hybrids of C. florida × C. kousa (Cornus × rutgersensis) developed by Elwin R. Orton Jr.
Eastern Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
American Holly (Ilex opaca)
Cranberry Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster apiculatus)
Foster Holly (Ilex x attenuata 'Fosteri')
Nellie Stevens Holly (Ilex x 'Nellie R. Stevens')
* Amur Privet (Ligustrum amurense) ...
Growing Flowering Dogwood
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The beloved flowering dogwood tree, found in home gardens across the country, is just one of the many types of dogwoods. Some species are native to the United States.
About This Plant ...
Cornus florida. FLOWERING DOGWOOD. Eastern US into Mexico
Cornus nuttallii. PACIFIC DOGWOOD. Pacific Coast
CORNACEAE (Dogwood family) ...
Cornus florida, flowering dogwood, hardy zones 5-9; Cornus kousa, in zones 5-8
See Also
Red-barked dogwood (Cornus alba)
Yellow-barked dogwood (Cornus flaviramea, Cornus stolonifera) ...
Description:
Flowering Dogwood has varieties and cultivars with pink- or red-bracted inflorescences; in this case, the indented apices are white, creating a subtle bicolor effect.
Cornus florida
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Summersweet Clethra Clethra alnifolia 'Rosea' Pink Summersweet Cornus alba Tatarian Dogwood Cornus alba 'Argenteo-marginata' Variegated Tatarian Dogwood (syn. 'Elegantissima') Cornus alba 'Sibirica' Siberian Dogwood Cornus florida Flowering Dogwood ...
Cornus - The first of these is flowering dogwood, the wonderful native North American Cornus florida and its cultivars.
The kousa dogwood is similar to the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida): Both have small, inconspicuous flowers surrounded by large, showy bracts.
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Cornus ‘Eddie's White Wonder' Flowering Dogwood
A cross between C. Florida and C. nuttallii, ‘Eddie's White Wonder' is one of the most beautiful of all the flowering dogwoods.
This trait is evident in the flowering dogwood (C. florida) of E North America, with white or pink bracts, and the very similar Pacific dogwood (C. nuttallii) of the West.
Stop 12 (FD) - Flowering Dogwood
Stop 13 (KT) - Katsuratree
Stop 14 (FS) - Fragrant Sumac
Stop 15 (CHE) - Chinese Elm
Stop 16 (RUO) - Russian Olive
Stop 17 (KC) - Kentucky Coffeetree
Stop 18 (HC) - Horsechestnut
Stop 19 (WP) - White Pine ...
Alternative flowering dogwoods include 'Rubra', with pink flowers, and 'First Lady, with variegated yellow-green foliage.
Cornus florida - Flowering Dogwood
Cornus racemosa - Gray Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia - Alternate-leaf Dogwood
Cornus nuttallii - Western Flowering Dogwood; Pacific Flowering Dogwood
Cornus mas - Cornelian Dogwood
Cornus kousa - Kousa Dogwood ...
The North American native flowering dogwoods (C. florida and C. Nuttallii) are plagued by anthracnose fungal disease, caused by at least one species of Discula.
On the coast, western redcedar and flowering dogwood may also be present, with salal, Oregon-grape, western trillium and vanilla-leaf beneath.
These forests are often home to bears and cougars; owls and woodpeckers; and toads, frogs and salamanders.
A few examples include serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea), redbud (Cercis canadensis), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), river birch (Betula nigra), fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus), American holly (Ilex opaca), ...
Other Common Name: Flowering Dogwood
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When it comes to plants, I'm able to pick up on family resemblances a little more easily. One of the easiest to see is the dogwood hybrids developed between the Kousa Dogwood and our native Flowering Dogwood.
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be other spring woodland flowers including the creamy white pantaloons of Dutchman's breeches and the brilliant yellow trout lily. Off the forest floor, you can find the burst of white flowers in shrubs such as the juneberry or flowering dogwood.
 See also: Dogwood, Cornus, Green, Pink, Cornus florida
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