Everything about Northern Swamp Dogwood totally explained
Cornus racemosa (
Northern Swamp Dogwood or
Gray Dogwood) is a
shrubby plant species growing to 5 m tall. Its native from southeastern
Canada and
northeastern United States. It is a member of the dogwood genus
Cornus and the
family Cornaceae.
Plants produce many stems and sucker much with older stems having distinctively gray colored bark. Upright growing plants with rounded habit have oppositely arranged leaves, and terminally born flowers. The white colored flowers are small with four
petals and clustered together in rounded, 2 inch wide clusters called cymose panicles, produced in May to early June. After flowering, green fruits are produced that turn white in late summer, the white fruits or
drupes are attached to the plant by way of rich red colored
pedicels. Many species of Birds feed on the fruits. Old branches grow slowly, while new stems are fast growing, each branch tends to end in flowers. In the fall the foliage can take on a reddish or purplish color, though its not overly showy from a distance.
A
synonymous name for the species is
Swida racemosa.
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