Cornus florida is a common understory species in many hardwood forests in eastern North America. It plays an important role in nutrient cycling and is an important food resource for many vertebrate ...

Maybe you have been fortunate enough to spot a dogwood tree, or even a small grove of them, in full bloom on an Appalachian hillside in springtime. The ivory white flowers glow softly against the ...

Also known as boxwood or cornel, flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) is a common ornamental tree found in the United States. Its popularity is due to its large flowers and wide range across climate and ...

KNOXVILLE, TN -- In the nursery and landscape industries, flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa), and their hybrids are the most popular and economically significant members ...

It's Derby season in Kentucky, which means it must also be dogwood season. Throughout the region the past couple of weeks have brought dogwoods into their Derby best — layered masses of white with a ...

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering. I can happily report ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Plants exhibit a range of responses in growth and reproduction to attack by herbivores from loss, to no effect, to overcompensation. We ...

One of the most beautiful flowering trees you see blooming these days, both in the wild and in cultivated gardens locally, is the dogwood. The wild dogwood, typically found in woodland areas in the ...

No spring-blooming tree is more beloved in the Northeast than the dogwood and few suburban neighborhoods in New Jersey are without its frothy clouds of white and pink. Native dogwoods are not without ...

Why chose a pink dogwood over a white one? Purists consider the white to be the perfect woodland specimen, but the pink has a charm of its own and can be equally spectacular. A relatively fast growing ...