There is literally no part of the North American continent that does not contain at least one species of dogwood ( Cornus spp . ) . Of the many mintage available in size of it and form , ranging from low - mature bush to towering tree , the most wide recognize and used for landscaping is the beloved flowering cornel , Cornus florida . The " flowers " — in reality colorful bract — are large and showy in that metal money , butdogwoodsshow much colour variety in their stem , berries and leaf , as well .
Flowers
The vast bulk of cornel flowers are white — though the flowers may also be pinkish or rose and seldom , yellow . While flower colour is somewhat modified , the sizing and form of the flower varies substantially from the turgid undivided flowers of C. florida to blossom clustering of the pagoda or substitute leafage dogwood , C. alternifolia — and even to the invisible , as in C. capitata or Bentham ’s dogwood , an Asian species .
White varieties such as Weaver ’s White and Welch ’s Bay Beauty abound , but perhaps the most widely planted of the pinkish and red efflorescence dogwood are the Cherokee cultivar of C. florida — Cherokee Chief , Cherokee Brave , Cherokee Daybreak and Cherokee Princess . In addition to beautiful color , the Cherokee cultivars and the two lily-white cultivar mention , demonstrate resistor to anthracnose and powdery mildew , common disease of dogwoods .
Berries
Many dogwood exhibit large oval red berry in the fall — by far the most common color and build , whether on the baronial flowering dogwoods or the low - grow creeping dogwood tree , C. canadensis , also called bunchberry . Dogwood berries also come in white , dreary and pale yellow round or oval forms . C. alternifolia raise blasphemous — almost black — Berry on endearing ruby stem . The silky dogwood , C. amomum , turn out gray - blue berries and the xanthous - flower cornelian cherry , C. mom , yield an eatable harvest of orangish - red berry , resemble tiny Pyrus communis tomato . The grayish dogwood , C. racemosa , farm round , white berries on blood-red root .
Stems and Twigs
With its brilliant scarlet - discolour stems , the American native redosier dogwood , C. stolonifera , is a spectacular specimen for wintertime color in the landscape , and sometimes thread into basket . Several of the dogwoods exhibit the red stem colour , but the redosier is one of the unfearing of the shrub - sized dogwood when grown in moist condition . Some of the prettiest Cornus cultivars for winter sake do from the bloodtwig , C. sanguinea — among them Midwinter Fire and Winter Flame — and the Chinese and Siberian native C. alba or redtwig dogwood , peculiarly cultivars Cardinal and Siberica .
Leaves
For spectacular fall foliage , the dogwood are hard to dumbfound . Most show deep red foliage , often with orange or xanthous slope ahead of time in the fall , wrench more intensely ruby as the season go on . The leaves frequently also expose green veining until the semblance fully evolve , make them even more interesting as landscape plants . Some dogwoods , such as the Pacific flowering dogwood , C. nuttallii , make yellow - orangeness fall showing .
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