Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida).
One of our most magnificent spring displays, these
trees have flowers that are actually heads of
insignificant greenish flowers surrounded by four
white bracts that look like flower petals. The wild
ones are usually white or barely tinged with pink;
cultivated varieties in pink and nearly red have been
developed.
Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum).
The Dogwoods we know best are the “flowering”
varieties—which actually have inconspicuous little
green flowers surrounded by a showy involucre of white
or pink. But this very attractive shrub or small tree
forgoes the spectacular false petals and makes its
show by clustering its little white flowers together.
Cornus obliqua
Cornus racemosa
Cornus alternifolia