Common Name: Flowering Dogwood

Scientific Name: Cornus florida (white); Cornus rutgersensis (pink)

Family Name: Cornaceae

Quail Hill Farm

Inman, South Carolina

Flower -- April 11, 2002

Berry -- August 25, 2002

Cornus florida State flower of North Carolina		Stellar Dogwood Cornus rutgersensis

The state flower of North Carolina and the state tree of several other southeastern states, it bears clusters of small, inconspicuous, greenish yellow flowers with 4 subtending, white, 2-3 inch long bracts that function as showy petals. Clusters of brilliant red berries form in the fall. These small native trees are frequent to common in open woodlands throughout the state and over much of the eastern U.S. March-April [Justice, William S. and Bell, C. Ritchie, Wild Flowers of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1968]

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