Alternate Dogwood Scientific Name: Cornus alternifolia
Description: A shrub or sometimes a tree 6-25' high, with a trunk occasionally 9" thick, the umber brown bark roughly scored. The shrub forms with slender stems and smooth olive green branches, often streaked with white.
Habitat: In damp thickets or copses.
Range: From eastern Quebec west to western Ontario, Minnesota and Iowa, and south to Georgia and Alabama.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: The Dow Gardens Archives, Dow Gardens from www.forestryimages.org. |
