Flowering Dogwood Fact Sheet

Flowering dogwood has large showy.

Flowering dogwood fact sheet.

Opposite simple 3 to 5 inches long oval in shape with an entire or slightly wavy margin arcuately veined green above and slightly paler below. The deeply ridged and broken bark resembles alligator hide. A flowering dogwood tree s flowers aren t flowers. Dogwood is a type of flowering tree that belongs to the family cornaceae.

Other species can be quite different. For example the blackfruit cornel native to california has small yellow green blooms and a fruit which turns black when ripe thus the name. A flowering dogwood tree usually flowers in spring. The state tree of virginia the flowering dogwood has conspicuous white to light yellow flowers that offer magnificent blooms in spring.

The northern most natural stand in the state occurs along the barringtonrochester town. Very small and inconspicuous tight cluster but surrounded by 4 very showy large white occasionally pink bracts 2 inches in diameter appearing in. Flowering dogwood cornaceae cornus florida l. Dogwood can be found in the evergreen forests or on the edges of deciduous forests.

The leaves are opposite one another and from 3 to 6 inches long. The native flowering dogwood cornus florida is a popular ornamental tree that thrives well in the warmer areas of new hampshire. There are 30 to 50 species of dogwood that are native to temperate areas of north america and eurasia. The southern part of the state is included in the northern transitional zone where patches of dogwoods occur sporadically usually on dry south facing slopes.