Flowering Dogwood

 

 

 

 

Photo: Fuchsia Caroline
 

 

 

 

Hayley Westenra: Dogwood Flower

 

 

 

 

One of North Carolina's most common, showy, and familiar

understory trees.  Chapel Hill, NC 3/31/07.

 

 

 

 

 

The white bracts surrounding the flower clusters are unmistakable

and very showy in early to mid-April.

Carroll Co., VA 4/15/06.

 

 

The flowers at left are not yet open.

 

 

 

 

 

Flowering Dogwood is the North Carolina state flower.

The actual flowers are small and yellowish-green.

Some cultivars have pink bracts.

Chapel Hill, NC 4/13/02.

 

 

Close-up of the small, yellowish-green flowers.

Chapel Hill, NC 3/31/07.

 

 

 

 

A wild mutant flower - all the flower clusters

on this tree had six pink bracts instead of four white ones.

Granville Co., NC 4/27/03.

 

 

The leaves are opposite, simple, and have prominent veins.

Orange Co., NC 9/20/02.

 

 

 

The bright red fruits, which ripen in September,

are eaten by birds. Orange Co., NC 9/20/02.

 

 

 

Note the distinctive shape of the four-parted flower bud.

Alleghany Co., NC 9/23/06. 

 

 

 

 

Carroll Co., VA 10/16/06.

 

 

 

Carroll Co., VA 10/16/06.

 

 

 

 

The fruits last throughout the fall and winter.

Fall foliage color is deep purplish-red.

Scotland Co., NC 11/1/08.

 

 

Carroll Co., VA 10/26/08.

 

 

 

 

 

Carroll Co., VA 10/26/08.

 

 

 

 

Flower buds breaking.

Moore Co., NC 3/22/08.

 

 

 

 

You can tell a dogwood by its distinctive bark, which is broken into

small squarish blocks on mature trees.

Harnett Co., NC 4/19/03. 

 

 

 

 

 

Bark of a large dogwood tree (with a small tree to the right).

Moore Co., NC 3/22/08.

 

 

More information:
Floridata
Missouri Plants
USDA PLANTS database
Virginia Tech Dendrology

Recommended Tree, Shrub, and Woody Vine Identification Guides

 

 

 

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