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Cornus sericea is a popular ornamental shrub that is often planted for the red coloring of its twigs in the dormant season. The cultivars 'Bud's Yellow', [11] 'Flaviramea' [12] with lime green stems, and 'Hedgerows Gold' [13] (variegated foliage) have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed in 2017). [14]
Members of the family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in inflorescences or pseudanthia, and drupaceous fruits. [2] The family is primarily distributed in northern temperate regions and tropical Asia. [3] In northern temperate areas, Cornaceae are well known from the dogwoods Cornus.
Cornus mas Cornus florida in spring Cornus drummondii in flower Mature and immature flowers of Cornus canadensis, Bonnechere Provincial Park, Ontario Cornus canadensis fruit Spring budding Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species [ Note 1 ] of woody plants in the family Cornaceae , commonly known as dogwoods or cornels , which can generally ...
Cornus sericea, a deciduous shrub also known as red osier dogwood Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
The flowering dogwood is usually included in the dogwood genus Cornus as Cornus florida L., although it is sometimes treated in a separate genus as Benthamidia florida (L.) Spach. Less common names for C. florida include American dogwood, Florida dogwood, Indian arrowwood, Cornelian tree, white cornel, white dogwood, false box, and false boxwood.
Cornaceae (dogwood family) 491 Cornus kousa: Kousa dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus mas: cornelian dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus nuttallii: western flowering dogwood; Pacific flowering dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) 492 Cornus racemosa: gray dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus sanguinea: common dogwood Cornaceae ...
Cornus rugosa is a shrub or small tree, 1–4 m (3–13 ft) tall, with yellowish-green twigs that may have red or purple blotches. Pith is white. Leaves are oppositely arranged, round orbicularly shaped with an acuminate tip, have an entire margin, and are woolly to hairless below. [4] Leaves have 6-8 pairs of lateral veins and 7–15 cm long.
Cornus asperifolia, called toughleaf dogwood, is species of Cornus native to the southeastern United States. [2] A shrub or small tree typically 3 to 5 m tall, it has yellow‑white flowers and white fruit.