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Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa) is a highly adaptable low-maintenance native shrub for naturalized settings. It is good for erosion control and screening.
Gray dogwood is a very adaptable, native shrub that is excellent for naturalizing, especially in difficult sites, such as pond and stream banks. Although its suckering and spreading habit makes it impractical for formal plantings, it can be incorporated into the shrub border and useful as a mass planting.
Gray dogwood is a native deciduous, rhizomatous shrub in the Cornaceae or Dogwood Family. It may grow up from 4 to 15 feet high as a shrub and up to 27 feet tall as a small tree. It is frequently planted for its showy flowers and fruits and colorful fall foliage.
The gray dogwood isn't a tidy or attractive plant that you would want to plant in a well-groomed garden, but if you are planting a wildlife area or want a shrub for difficult conditions, it may be just what you need. Read on for information about this humble shrub.
Cornus racemosa, commonly called gray dogwood, is a deciduous shrub which is native to Missouri and typically occurs in moist or rocky ground along streams, ponds, wet meadows, glade and prairie margins, thickets and rocky bluffs.
Gray dogwood is an adaptable, native multi-stemmed shrub that is excellent for naturalizing areas. It is a slow-growing shrub where the younger stems are a reddish color and the older stems are gray-brown.
Gray Dogwood, Cornus foemina ssp. racemosa, Cornus paniculata. Tough and adaptable, Cornus racemosa (Gray Dogwood) is a thicket-forming, deciduous shrub with excellent blue-green foliage of elliptic to lance-shaped leaves up to 4 in. long (10 cm).